PORT ANGELES — A prison inmate already serving time for a 2012 attack on a corrections counselor has been sentenced for stabbing a prison officer in Clallam Bay.
The attorney general’s office says Carlos Avalos pleaded guilty last month to assaulting the officer at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center in early 2014. Prosecutors say he used a 4- to 5-inch metal object, most likely fashioned from a prison cell heating vent.
The officer suffered multiple cuts, including a long gash to his face.
Avalos was sentenced in Clallam County Superior Court on Tuesday to an additional 5 years and 10 months in prison.
At the time of the 2014 stabbing, he was serving 10 years for attacking a counselor while he was at a juvenile correctional facility.
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