Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,, announced the sentencing of a Bronx inmate for slashing a federal corrections officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Mario Powell, 34, will serve over eight years behind bars and three years of supervised release for the May 2020 attack.<\/p>\n
Court documents say Powell attempted to slit the officer’s throat with a contraband weapon made of razor blades.<\/p>\n
Powell was convicted of assaulting a corrections officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon and possession of prison contraband charges in September.<\/p>\n
“This sentence shows that violence in our corrections facilities will trigger meaningful consequences,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Clayton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,, announced the sentencing of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,26623,22885,11623,9,24,63,3209,8603,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-46957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-contraband","tag-corrections-officer","tag-metropolitan-detention-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sentencing","tag-slashing","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46957","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=46957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}