RICHMOND – A Ray County Jail inmate faces assault charges after reportedly stabbing another inmate. “(Injuries) were serious enough that he had to be transported to the hospital and had to be stitched up,” Sheriff Scott Childers said Oct. 1. “It was a deep laceration.” The ensuing blood presented a source of concern for deputies because of possible diseases, including HIV and hepatitis, Childers said. Ray County Memorial Hospital treated the victim. Earl Stackhouse, 24, reportedly argued with another inmate about loud television volume. While the victim lay on a bunk, Stackhouse allegedly approached with a sharp object and stabbed the man. “It was a piece of metal that had been pulled out of the cell itself,” Childers said. Childrers has expressed publicly his concern that the sheet metal the owners of the formerly private jail used to construct the cell walls and ceilings cheaply could be used to create crude blades, called shanks, with which inmates could stab people or commit…