Seven nurses, an office assistant and 12 correction officers at prison in Malone were taken in ambulances to a local hospital "for further evaluation and treatm

NBC5 has learned that at least 20 staff members were treated and released from the hospital after an altercation with an inmate at Upstate Correctional Facility.

More than a dozen staff from Upstate Correctional were hospitalized Wednesday evening after they encountered an unknown substance.

Union officials confirm several correction officers were treated at a hospital after being exposed to a foreign substance at Upstate Correctional. The emergency happened Wednesday and the officers were lightheaded and nauseous after what’s believed to have been a synthetic drug was discovered and became airborne.