Three employees of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility were treated after an inmate stabbed them Tuesday afternoon.

An inmate being moved from one area to another produced a homemade shank and stabbed three employees, according to Lauderdale County Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun. 

Calhoun said one employee received on-site treatment at the facility and two others were transported to a hospital with serious, but not-life threatening, injuries. 

An investigator has been assigned to the case and once the severity of the stab wounds is documented charges will be determined, Calhoun said.