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A hostage situation has ended at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after an inmate assaulted a correctional officer and took another correctional employee hostage.

Inmate Scott A. Nicholson assaulted the officer and took the other employee around 9:30 Wednesday morning. The situation was resolved by 11 a.m. when police say he released his hostage and voluntarily turned himself back in. Nicholson had been taking refuge in a housing unit.

Police say the correctional employee was slightly injured, suffering minor cuts. They say the correctional officer was unharmed.

Nicholson was first sentenced to the Indiana Department of Corrections back in 1998 on charges of robbery, criminal confinement, and attempting to deal drugs. On August 27th, 2010 he was convicted of attempted murder and other charges in a serious assault of another correctional officer while he was in the Pendleton Correctional Facility. In addition, Nicholson faces murder charges from Miami County in the 2004 killing of another inmate while he was in the Miami Correctional Facility.

The Indiana Department of Corrections say they are working on the new charges that will be filed against Nicholson as a result of this newest incident.

The names of the officer that was attacked and employee that was taken hostage are not being released for safety reasons.

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