A man convicted in the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania and also accused of assisting in an attack on a Manhattan jail guard has been transferred to a federal prison nicknamed Super Max for its high security, records show.
A Cook County jail guard and a Chicago area woman were arrested Thursday after allegedly helping smuggle marijuana to an inmate accused of savagely beating two women with a baseball bat during a Bucktown robbery last year, leaving one of the women severely disabled.
During sentencing hearings, prosecutors also presented evidence that Mr. Mohamed had assisted his cellmate, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, in an attack on a federal jail guard, Louis Pepe, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in 2000 that left the guard brain-damaged.
Surveillance footage was released Thursday showing a Louisiana jail guard attack an inmate, seemingly without provocation.
A reputed former top adviser to Osama bin Laden who stabbed a federal jail guard in the eye with a sharpened comb in 2000, leaving the guard with severe brain damage, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
