Eight Silverdale Detention Center inmates have been charged in connection to a Dec. 2 stabbing of another inmate, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
The inmates, Andre Blocker, Jr, 19; James Costlow, Jr., 32; Britian Tracey Crutcher, 28; Tracy Freeman, 51; Gerald Green, III, 21; Dedrick Lindsey, Jr., 27; Maurice Lamont Thurman, Jr., 20; and Patrick Watts, Jr., 20 are each charged with one count of possession of contraband in a penal facility and one count of aggravated riot in the stabbing of Jonathan Conyers.
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"This type of criminal activity involving inmate on inmate violence has unfortunately become a part of the culture within penal facilities across the nation," said Chief Deputy Austin Garrett in the release. "However, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office does not accept this as an unavoidable consequence of incarceration. The Sheriff's Office is committed to bringing those who prey on others to justice and utilizes professional incarceration practices to mitigate criminal acts within our facilities."
Conyers has been released from a local hospital and is currently in custody at Silverdale Detention Center.
-Compiled by Tierra Hayes