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sl8

(13,810 posts)
Mon Oct 17, 2022, 05:34 AM Oct 2022

Prisoner sentenced 24 years for killing leader of international child porn ring in Michigan prison

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/10/prisoner-sentenced-24-years-for-killing-leader-of-international-child-porn-ring-in-michigan-prison.html

Prisoner sentenced 24 years for killing leader of international child porn ring in Michigan prison

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 12:02 p.m.
By Nathan Clark | nclark1@mlive.com

MILAN, MI – A prison inmate who admitted to killing a convicted child predator in federal prison a month after the man was sentenced has been sentenced to additional prison time for his role in the brutal assault.

United States District Court Judge Paul D. Borman sentenced Adam Taylor Wright, Oct. 12, to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for the death of fellow inmate Christian Maire who was beaten and stabbed to death in the Milan Correctional Facility in 2019, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The sentence will run concurrently and consecutively to the sentences of imprisonment he is serving in other cases.

“Deterring violence inside prisons will always be a priority of this office,” said U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison. “Senseless acts of violence that jeopardize the safety of employees and inmates of the Bureau of Prisons will be aggressively prosecuted.”

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Prisoner sentenced 24 years for killing leader of international child porn ring in Michigan prison (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2022 OP
Not a rare phenomenon in Fed prisons, even more so in state prisons so that those who hlthe2b Oct 2022 #1
Did they ever figure out who killed Whitey Bolger? 3Hotdogs Oct 2022 #2

hlthe2b

(102,304 posts)
1. Not a rare phenomenon in Fed prisons, even more so in state prisons so that those who
Mon Oct 17, 2022, 06:48 AM
Oct 2022

bemoan murderers not getting the death penalty-- believing that they "got off easy" with life without parole-- might want to rethink. Maximum security prisons do not or can not control this kind of violence and those sentenced there will experience it and the fear of it, continually.

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