By C1 Staff
PORT ANGELES — The state Attorney General’s Office has recommended a five-year, 10-month prison sentence for the inmate who stabbed a prison officer with a metal shank last February.
The Peninsula Daily reports that Carlos Avalos was convicted of second-degree assault Feb. 13 for stabbing Officer Eric Huether with a 4-inch metal shank at the West End prison on Feb. 3, 2014.
Huether suffered cuts to his face, head, neck, hands and torso. He has since recovered from his injuries.
Avalos is already serving a 10-year sentence for attacking a counselor with a homemade knife at a correctional vocations school in 2012.
Avalos was originally charged with first-degree assault with a deadly weapon for the attack on Huether but was convicted of the lesser offense after a five-day jury trial.
His sentencing hearing has been reset to March 10. He has six felony convictions for assaulting staff.
He currently faces a sentencing range of 53 months to 70 months for his most recent conviction.