GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A former prisoner at the Green Bay Correctional Institution is facing several charges after allegedly assaulting and spitting on workers trying to administer a court-ordered medicinal shot.
30-year-old Darnell M. Brown is charged with five felonies including battery by prisoners, prisoner throw/expel bodily substances and bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, Brown was taken from the “Restricted Status Housing Unit” to a “Health Services” appointment back on September 24.
Brown was asked to sit on an examination table and spoke with a registered nurse, while being watched by 2 correctional officers.
Brown told the nurse that he didn’t want the shot and the nurse explained that the, “shot was court ordered and that he had no choice in the matter.” Another jail sergeant was called into the room to help restrain Brown at that time.
The nurse explained to Brown that if he refused to take the shot, officers would have to further restrain him and tie him down so the shot could be administered, according to the complaint.
Brown replied, “No thank you,” and then thrust his legs upward kicking the female nurse in the groin area forcing her backwards. The correctional officers and sergeant directed Brown onto his back on the exam table. Brown was reportedly aggressively resisting staff, as they tried rolling him onto his stomach.
At that point, Brown, “spit at a corrections officer striking her on her right eye and in her mouth.” The officer turned Brown’s face away from her and covered his mouth with his gloved hand. A spit mask was then put on Brown.
The officer hit with the spit washed out her eye and mouth, and then directed to go to the hospital for testing as a precaution. The other corrections officer was also spit on. The nurse, meantime, suffered bruising and pain from being kicked which lasted a week.
Brown is currently being held at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage.
This isn’t the first time Brown has faced charges for throwing or expelling bodily substances. He was convicted in Dodge County back in 2013 of that charge from an incident two years before.
Brown is due back in court on March 9 for a preliminary hearing. If convicted on all counts, Brown faces an extra 20 years in prison.
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