An inmate at Seward's Spring Creek Correctional Center has been charged with attempted murder in an inmate-on-inmate attack this year, less than five years after he attempted to kill another fellow inmate.
Online court records show that Mark Todd Spencer, 47, is also charged with one count each of assault in the first, second and third degrees, as well as promoting contraband involving a deadly weapon, in the Aug. 4 incident. According to KTUU, which first reported the charges, Spencer has been an inmate at Spring Creek since 2008.
Sherrie Daigle, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections, confirmed Monday that the victim was an inmate. She wasn't able to release further details on his condition or the attack, citing a pending investigation by Alaska State Troopers.
Spencer's felony criminal record includes convictions in the 1990s for assault, burglary and promoting contraband. In December 2008, he was convicted after pleading guilty in Anchorage to a second-degree count of manufacturing and/or delivering controlled substances earlier that year.
Troopers said Spencer attacked a Spring Creek inmate -- 33-year-old Floyd Boshears III -- in July 2011. Boshears, who was serving time on a robbery conviction, suffered life-threatening injuries.
Court records show that Spencer pleaded guilty to an attempted-murder charge from the attack on Boshears in July 2013, with prosecutors dropping a third-degree assault charge against him.