LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A federal prisoner who was formerly held at the U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy will serve anther prison term after stabbings.
Eric Eymard was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 years in prison and that sentence will begin after he completes a current term that ends in 2028.
Eymard admitted that he repeatedly stabbed his cellmale in the neck with a prison-made weapon in November 2007 and slashed the faces of two corrections officers as he was being prepared for transport to federal court in Ashland.
Eymard is now being housed at U.S. Prison Lee in Jonesville, Va.
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