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State prison inmate sentenced in Lawrence County Circuit Court

Friday, January 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM

By Steve Anderson

Lawrence County States Attorney Brady Waldrop reports that 39 year old Deonta Davis, an inmate at the Lawrence Correctional Center at Sumner was charged with Aggravated Battery of a Correctional Institutional Employee, a Class 2 Illinois felony.

The offense stems from an attack that took place at the prison.

Davis was given an additional 3 years with the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to run consecutively with his current sentence.

He will also be on mandatory supervised release for 2 years after getting out of prison