{"id":373005,"date":"2026-10-14T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373005\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:44:21","slug":"convicted-nyc-killer-to-spend-50-years-to-life-in-prison-following-attempted-prison-slashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373005\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted NYC killer to spend 50 years to life in prison following attempted prison slashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Jiniye-Hooks-200x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"251\"\/>Jiniye Hooks<\/p>\n<p>GOSHEN \u2013 A 21-year-old former New York City man who is serving a 20-year-to-life prison sentence for a 2024 murder in Manhattan, has had just under another 10 years tacked onto his sentence for assault charges stemming from his incarceration in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>Jiniye Hooks pled guilty in Orange County Court on October 7 to assault, attempted assault, promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a weapon while he was incarcerated in the Goshen Secure Center in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It was alleged that Hooks was found in possession of a medical scalpel on January 2, 2025, and on April 19 of that year, he used a ceramic blade he had hidden in a pen cap to attempt to slash another inmate in the neck and face.<\/p>\n<p>When he pled guilty, he admitted to attempting to injury the victim and to injuring an employee at the facility during the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler termed Hooks\u2019 actions a \u201cdemonstrated pattern of unthinkable violence\u201d that he said continues \u201cto remove him from the rest of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jiniye Hooks GOSHEN \u2013 A 21-year-old former New York City man who is serving a 20-year-to-life prison sentence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137373,9,11,10,137374],"class_list":["post-373005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jiniye-hooks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-prison-slashing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}