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Man sentenced for assault at federal prison hospital in Missouri

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 57-year-old inmate at a federal prison hospital in Springfield has been sentenced to nearly five more years in prison for attacking another inmate.

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Michael Singletary was sentenced Friday for attacking another inmate with an ice pick-style weapon in April 2016 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners.

The Springfield News-Leader reports corrections officers intervened after the victim was stabbed several times. The inmate survived the attack.

Singletary’s attorney, Brady Musgrave, said before sentencing that the victim had threatened Singletary a few days before the attack.

Singletary is serving a 12-year sentence from 2014 for obstruction of justice and being a felon in possession of a firearm in California.

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