A convicted murderer, 47 year old Dexter Ewing, who is in a Grant County prison was sentenced Wednesday to 40 more years in prison for trying to kill a fellow inmate in 2018. Ewing is already serving a life in prison sentence without the possibility of parole, but Grant County Circuit Court Judge Craig Day said he hopes it “presents some element of benefit to future inmates, future guards of a sentence that sends a strong message.” Ewing pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 40 additional years in prison and 20 years of extended supervision. He currently is serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing a woman and taking a hostage in 2008 in Milwaukee County. He also was convicted of felony murder in 2013 and of strangling a cellmate in a Columbia County jail in 2015. In October 2018, Ewing used two shanks made out of a toothbrush to stab another inmate in the neck. In June 2019, Ewing attacked a pair of prison guards, again with a shank made out of a toothbrush, as they were preparing him for a surgical procedure. Both prison guards suffered head injuries. In both instances, Ewing told investigators he was trying to kill his victims.
