Inmate Sentenced For Assault

{Beckley, West Virginia}...Thirty-six year old Sylvester Cuevas an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for separate assaults on guards. One occurred at the federal facility, while the other involved a correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County. Both assaults occurred in 2010. Both guards suffered facial injuries. Cuevas was serving a sentence in Beckley for mailing threatening communications.