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Indiana inmate gets 38 years for razor blade attack on guard

Indiana inmate gets 38 years for razor blade attack on guard
Posted at 8:15 PM, May 05, 2022
and last updated 2022-05-05 20:15:06-04

PERU, Ind. (AP) — An inmate at a northern Indiana prison convicted of slashing a correctional officer’s face with a razor blade has received a 38-year sentence for the attack.

The Kokomo Tribune reports that a Miami County judge sentenced Raul Sotelo on Wednesday in the attack at the Miami Correctional Facility.

Sotelo was already serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a 12-year-old Lake County girl.

A jury convicted Sotelo last month of attempted murder and other charges in the July 2020 prison attack with a homemade weapon that left Officer Mackenzie Malott with a deep, permanent 5-inch-long facial scar.