MCMINVILLE, OR — An inmate has been convicted a second time for attacks on other inmates at the federal prison in Yamhill County. Thomas William Cornelius, 49, was convicted Wednesday of using a razor blade to slash the throat of a handcuffed inmate. Authorities said Cornelius was angered because inmate Kevin Schultz hadn’t delivered a letter to a female prisoner on his behalf.
Cornelius told FBI agents he was “at war with the world.”
In April Cornelius was convicted of stabbing and clubbing Randy Mainwaring, a former Eugene banker serving time for fraud and identity theft.
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