CLEARFIELD – A state prison inmate will be spending more time in prison for assaulting a corrections officer and other crimes while incarcerated.
Shakour Adresse Brown, 37, pleaded guilty during sentencing court Monday, to two felony counts of assault by prisoner in relation to his actions at the state prison in Houtzdale in Sept. 2021.
His attorney, Ryan Dobo, noted that Brown had mental health issues which caused the incidents.
Brown addressed the court saying he had to “take responsibility for my actions.”
President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman sentenced him to serve an additional 15 months to four years in state prison.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, Brown refused to vacate the shower at the prison and return to his cell.
A team was assembled to extract him. When they got to the shower area, Brown refused to cooperate leading to one officer using pepper spray on Brown. Brown continued to refuse their orders, police said.
he team entered the shower area with an electric body immobilization device. The first officer carrying the device, encountered resistance from Brown upon first contact. He attempted to pin Brown to the shower wall but Brown was able to force him to the floor and remove the officer’s helmet and gas mask.
Brown then struck him multiple times with a closed fist, about the head, face and neck, causing “obvious injury to those areas.”
The team was eventually able to gain control of Brown and remove him from the shower.
In a second case from May 2021, Brown pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment. For this, he received a concurrent sentence of 15 months to four years.
According to the affidavit in the second case, Brown threw an unknown liquid from a container that struck two COs as they tried to pass a meal tray to Brown through the feeding aperture. The liquid also struck the meal tray cart.
Test results from their uniforms revealed the liquid contained fecal material.
In a third case, Brown pleaded guilty to simple assault for which he received a concurrent sentence of 12 months to two years.
