FEDERAL INMATE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS FOR FIGHT RESULTING IN DEATH

PRESS RELEASE

Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that ANDRE D. BENNETT, 33, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana, was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following his guilty plea to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. This case was the result of a investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

On June 13, 2007, BENNETT, during mutual combat with fellow inmate James Russell, kicked Russell in the head. Russell was pronounced dead due to blunt force trauma later that day. The legal definition of the term “serious bodily injury” includes a substantial risk of death.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Warden, who prosecuted the case for the government, Judge McKinney also imposed three years supervised release following BENNETT’s release from imprisonment.