State Police Arrest Prison Inmates On Assault Charges

 State police responded to three incidents of assaultive inmate behavior last week at Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road.

At about noon on July 13, Garner officials called state police to a report a violent incident.

After an investigation, state police charged inmate Charles Redshirt, 27, with three counts of assault on a public safety officer and with one count of refusal to be fingerprinted.

 State police allege that Redshirt assaulted one male and two female Garner staff members, all three of whom were injured in the incident.

Redshirt was arraigned on the charges in Danbury Superior Court on July 14. He is scheduled to return to court on August 4.

Redshirt is serving a prison term on a conviction for violation of probation. He is currently housed at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, according to state Department of Correction.

In another incident, at 4:46 pm on July 12, state police responded to Garner to investigate a report of an assault.

While being escorted to a different cell at the prison, inmate Mohamed Farah, 20, spat on a correction officer, state police said. The 42-year-old male victim was not injured.

State police charged Farah with assault on a public safety officer and with refusal to be fingerprinted.

Farah was arraigned in court on the charges on July 13 and is scheduled to return to court on July 20.

In an incident about 4:25 pm July 13, state police responded to Garner to investigate a report that an unidentified inmate had thrown a liquid believed to be urine onto a 35-year-old female correction officer.

Evidence will be analyzed to determine whether the liquid substance is urine, state police said. The incident is under investigation.

Throwing urine at a correction officer would constitute an assault charge.