Prison inmate to get more time for prison guard assaults

YOUNGSTOWN — An inmate at the Ohio State Penitentiary convicted of assaulting multiple prison guards will spend additional time behind bars.

Michael Jones, 24, an inmate at the Coitsville-Hubbard Road correctional facility on the city’s East Side, pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts of acts against prison guards including harassment with bodily fluid, intimidation, felonious assault and assault. He officially will be sentenced Aug. 13.

Jones appeared today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court strapped to a two-wheeled, wheelchair-like device wearing an orange jumpsuit with a netted hood over his head. Guards from the prison stood on all four sides and deputy sheriffs stood at attention only feet away.

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