Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,, announced the sentencing of a Bronx inmate for slashing a federal corrections officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Mario Powell, 34, will serve over eight years behind bars and three years of supervised release for the May 2020 attack.

Court documents say Powell attempted to slit the officer's throat with a contraband weapon made of razor blades.

Powell was convicted of assaulting a corrections officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon and possession of prison contraband charges in September.

"This sentence shows that violence in our corrections facilities will trigger meaningful consequences,” said U.S. Attorney Clayton.