JACK L BUDD
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Officer Rank: Correctional Officer
Memorial Panel: 59-E: 3
Department: Michigan Department of Corrections
End of Watch: December 27, 1987
Cause: NIFE
Age: 38
Years of Service: 1
Description: Officer Budd was stabbed to death by a prisoner at the State Prison of Southern Michigan. The prisoner was being escorted to the ground floor shower stall when he broke free and attacked the officer who was escorting him. The prisoner then ran down the cell block, where he stabbed Officer Budd with a sharpened bucket handle. Despite his injuries, Officer Budd helped to subdue the prisoner. Officer Budd was taken to a local hospital where he died an hour later. His assailant was found guilty of murder and received a life sentence.
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