Inmate at FCI-Berlin Pleads Guilty to Assault

           CONCORD – United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Shakur Brownstein, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution FCI-Berlin, pleaded guilty to assaulting another inmate on May 22, 2018. 

            According to court documents and statements made in court, Brownstein was walking behind another inmate in the Blue Corridor of FCI-Berlin when Brownstein ran up and struck the inmate from behind.  Brownstein fractured the jaw of the other inmate, who required numerous surgeries and the surgical insertion of a titanium plate to hold his facial bones in place.  The attack was captured on videotape and lasted less than 15 seconds. 

            Brownstein will be sentenced on December 21, 2018.

            The staff at FCI-Berlin conducted the investigation of this case. Assistant United States Attorney Donald A. Feith prosecuted the case.

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