Marion Prison Inmate Sentenced To An Additional 5 Years For Assaulting Correctional Officers

Erick Roman, 38, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to charges that he assaulted three different correctional officers on three different occasions at that facility, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The offenses were committed at USP-Marion on August 20, 2014, September 13, 2014, and September 28, 2014. At the time of the assaults Roman was serving a 60 year federal sentence imposed in the District of Maryland for Conspiracy to Participate in a Racketeering Enterprise.

A sentencing hearing was held immediately following the entry of the guilty pleas. Roman was sentenced to a 5 year term of imprisonment for the assaults and that sentence was imposed consecutively to the 60 year sentence he was already serving. Roman was also ordered to pay $383 in restitution to the victims of his assaults and $300 in special assessments to the United States. A three year term of supervised release to follow his incarceration was also imposed.

Roman was immediately returned to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume serving his sentences.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney James M. Cutchin.