ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WLUK/KRQE/CNN) — New Mexico Prison Officials have released video showing convicted kidnapper Jake Patterson in a brawl with another inmate at a prison in that state.
Patterson, who kidnapped Jayme Closs last year when she was just 13 years old, can be seen talking to another inmate while wearing a blue jumpsuit.
In August, Patterson told prison staff the fight broke out after the inmate asked him about his case. The inmate then told Patterson to leave the pod because of what he’d done.
The conversation set Patterson off, and in the video, you can see he throws the first punch.
The men start to wrestle each other and a few more punches are thrown.
As the men are fighting a prison sergeant fires off a bean bag shotgun to stop the brawl, which can be seen on the tape.
Neither inmate was hit but both men immediately stopped fighting — and Patterson was placed in restrictive housing.
Wisconsin prison officials quietly transferred Jake Patterson to New Mexico in July. Prior to that, in June, Patterson was disciplined at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun for threatening to assault another inmate.
