EKB News

Twenty eight year old Manuel Cardosa, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Inez (Martin County), has been convicted in U.S. District Court in Ashland of assaulting a fellow inmate, Marvin Fontenette. The jury found that, in December, Cardosa assulted Fontenette, while attacking him from behind, knocking him to the ground and continuing to stomp and kick him until being restrained by prison staff. The victim suffered bleeding of the brain which led to paralysis of the left side of his body, loss of vision in his left eye and impaired cognitive functioning. Cardosa faces a maximum of ten years. No sentencing date was set.