A state prison inmate will be spending an additional six years behind bars for assaulting a correctional officer at the Smith Unit here in 2018.
Tamarick Jackson, age 24, pleaded guilty in 106th District Court here this past Thursday to a charge of assault on a public servant.
Senior Judge Cecil Puryear, serving here by assignment, assessed Jackson the six-year prison sentence and ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine as part of a plea-bargain agreement, according to court records.
Puryear ordered that Jackson’s new sentence not begin until he completes the sentence for which he already was incarcerated.
Jackson was indicted last month ...