BUCKEYE, Ariz. — More than a month after being accused of assaulting a corrections officer, an Arizona inmate told 12News he did it because he was tired of poor prison conditions and being treated “disrespectfully.”
The first call to the 12News I-Team from ASPC-Eyman, a state prison in Florence, was unexpected. But what Arizona inmate Jacob Purdue said over a series of calls came as an even bigger shock when he confessed to the crime.
“Why did you attack him?” asked reporter Erica Stapleton…