A prison inmate, who was behind bars for pistol-whipping a woman, made a beeline for a guard and fatally beat him, say Ohio authorities. The victim, Andrew Lansing, had been working that Christmas morning at Ross Correctional Institution so that others could have time off.

An Ohio prison guard is dead after being assaulted by an inmate on Christmas Day, authorities said.

At the prison, Andrew Lansing was well-respected and loved by his colleagues, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Annette Chambers-Smith. Services for Lansing will be 1 p.m. on Jan. 3 in Chillicothe High School's Hatton ...

Cannon, who did this — is just pure evil," Chambers-Smith said. An incident report from the Ohio Highway Patrol, which is investigating the death, stated that Lansing suffered severe head trauma before his death.

The head of the state prisons department is speaking out about what she called a brutal murder of a guard on Christmas day. Authorities say corrections officer Andrew Lansing was attacked and killed by 27-year-old inmate Rashawn Cannon.

A corrections officer was reportedly the victim of a brutal Christmas Day attack by an inmate at the Ross Correctional Institution in Ross County, Ohio.

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday released what she described as “shocking and disturbing” footage from body-worn cameras of correctional officers showing the fatal beating of an inmate at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York.