Dramatic security footage has been released by authorities showing an inmate taking a librarian hostage at knifepoint at an Arizona prison. The Arizona Department of Corrections this week released the footage from December 26, 2018, showing an intense encounter between inmate Timothy Monk and the librarian at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye, FOX 10 Phoenix reported. Monk took the librarian hostage “in an apparent demand to leave the complex,” officials said, according to AZ Family. In 2006, he “he held a female corrections officer hostage in a Tucson prison using a homemade blade of razors and plexiglass,” the media outlet reported. Hartzell was awarded the department’s Medal of Valor, the Arizona Department of Corrections’ highest honor, for his actions.

Source: Fox News February 02, 2019 15:56 UTC