POUGHKEEPSIE – For the second time in less than six months, an inmate at the Dutchess County Jail has been charged with punching a corrections officer in the face, causing facial injuries.

Eddie Knox, Jr., 34, was charged with second-degree assault in connection with the latest incident on February 3.

The corrections officer who was attacked suffered numerous facial injuries, was treated at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, but was then sent to an oral surgeon in Newburgh for further treatment and oral surgery.

The first attack, against another officer, was on September 2, 2009. That resulted in a fractured cheek bone requiring the officer to undergo plastic surgery.

Knox has been incarcerated at the Dutchess County Jail since June 11, 2009 on a pending charge of criminal mischief in the third degree, a felony.