FCI Danbury Inmate Sentenced To Additional Term

Friday, May 23, 2025, 6:45 A.M. ET. 1 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

NEW HAVEN, CT.- A 34-year-old federal inmate found out he would be spending an additional year in federal prison after being sentenced on Wednesday for assaulting a fellow inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution Danbury in December 2023.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Jonathan Cruz-Carmona, 34, an inmate at FCI Danbury, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Victor A. Bolden to 12 months and one day in federal prison for his June 3, 2024, guilty plea to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.

According To The Charging Documents

     According to the charging documents filed with the District Court, on December 18, 2023, while incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution Danbury, Cruz-Carmona used a weapon fashioned from a broken pencil and two razor blades, commonly known as a “shank,” to assault another inmate, causing lacerations to the victim’s chin and neck. Although being injured, the wounds were not considered to be life-threatening.

     At the time of the instant offense, Cruz-Carmona was serving a 200-month federal prison term from the Western District of New York for his conviction of Murder with a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. In handing down the sentence on Wednesday, Judge Bolden ordered the sentence to be served consecutive to the 200-month term.