Larry Nassar stabbed in cell, report says attack not caught on camera

Larry Nassar A new report says the man was stabbed in his cell in a blind spot beyond the reach of surveillance cameras.

A 59-year-old former U.S. women’s gymnastics doctor was severely injured in the neck, back and chest by fellow inmates with makeshift weapons at the high-security U.S. prison Coleman Prison. florida on sunday.

A source told The Associated Press that prison cameras recorded only common areas and corridors and that Nassar’s stabbing was an “unwitnessed event.”

Nassar was given life support by security guards before being taken to hospital, where he suffered a collapsed lung but was in stable condition, the Associated Press reported.

Nassar’s stabbing was weeks later. bomb report addressed the 2019 suicide of Jeffrey Epstein and the Bureau of Prisons’ chronic failures over the suicide of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski at the North Carolina Federal Medical Center.

A scathing report by the Justice Department Inspector General said Epstein took his own life in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking due to negligence, misconduct and misconduct by prison officers. It was recognized that it was due to the low ability to perform duties.

In response to the report, Prison Service Director Collette Peters pledged to change hiring practices and end systemic abuse and corruption.

At the time of the attack on Nassar, two security guards were working overtime due to a mandated shortage, a person familiar with the incident told The Associated Press.

USP Coleman II Prison, where Nassar was imprisoned, has 1,200 inmates, and staffing guidelines say it should have 222 prison officers. However, according to records obtained by the Associated Press, there are currently only 169 police officers working there.

former american gymnastics The team doctor is serving a prison sentence of 40 to 175 years for sexually abusing a young female athlete in her care and for possessing child pornography.

He was previously assaulted in May 2018 within hours of being incarcerated at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona.

Last month, a 4,000-page pile of documents related to Epstein’s death was released, revealing a letter from a disgraced investor to Nassar weeks before his death.

The letter was found returned in the prison mailroom a few weeks after Epstein’s death.