An inmate involved in the 2022 beating of an MCI-Shirley corrections officer pleaded guilty on Friday.
Roy Booth, 42, was charged with mayhem and armed assault with intent to murder corrections officer Matthew Tidman
The 2022 attack involved Booth taking a metal pole from the weight room and relentlessly beating Tidman with it. Booth was transferred to Virginia State Prison after the attack, where he was originally transferred from in 2021…