OSP inmate gets additional prison time for attack on guards

YOUNGSTOWN — Cornelius Harris will spend an additional 32 years in prison for assaulting two prison guards at the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Harris, after a weeklong trial, was convicted of two counts of felonious assault and two counts of having a deadly weapon inside a detention facility. He was sentenced today by Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Harris, who is already serving a 54-year sentence on a litany of other charges, could have been sentenced to an additional 36 years in prison. Judge Sweeney handed down nine-year sentences on each of the felonious assaults and seven-year sentences on each of the possession of a deadly weapon charges.

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