Grant County Prison Inmate Gets Third Life Sentence

A man already serving time for murder in a Grant County prison received his third life sentence at a hearing Thursday afternoon. 47 year old Dexter Ewing pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide as a persistent repeater.  Ewing has attempted to kill four people since his incarceration. In June, he pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide for stabbing a fellow inmate in the neck in October 2018. In June 2019, Ewing used a shank made from a toothbrush to attack two prison guards who were preparing Ewing for a surgical procedure. Both guards suffered head injuries. In January, Ewing stabbed a correctional officer in the neck with a shank at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility.  Ewing is already serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing a woman and taking a hostage in 2008 in Milwaukee County and strangling his cellmate in a Columbia County jail in 2015. He was also convicted of felony murder in 2013.