By Wayne Peal
Livingston Daily
HOWELL, Mich. — An inmate with a history of violence against corrections officers had a minimum of 20 years added to his sentence by a Livingston County Circuit Court judge.
Joshua John Dewey, 30, was sentenced to an additional 20-40 years by Judge Michael P. Hatty after pleading guilty on counts of assault with intent to maim a corrections officer and assault of a prison employee at the Woodland Correctional Facility off M-36 in Green Oak Township.
The sentences will run concurrently.
At that time, Dewey admitted he threw a plastic chair at a officer and gouged the officer’s eye after being denied permission to attend a January church service.
The officer was permanently disfigured and disabled by the attack, officials said.
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