Medina man who threw feces at COs in county jail gets up to 5 years in prison

Deon Jackson

ALBION – A Medina man who threw feces at four corrections officers in the Orleans County Jail, causing three to miss extended time at work, was sentenced this morning to 2 ½ to 5 years in state prison.

Deon Jackson, 25, in September was sentenced to 7 years in state prison for first-degree assault as an accomplice in two stabbings at the Canal Basin in Medina on Nov. 1, 2024.

Jackson will have the new sentence of 2 ½ to 5 years added to the 7-year prison sentence. He was sentenced for aggravated harassment of employees by an inmate Orleans County Court Judge Sanford Church.

Jackson threw the feces at the corrections officers on May 26. Three of the staff had it land in their eyes and mouth, while it got on the clothes of another corrections officer. Three of them had to take strong anti-viral medicine that flushes the immune system. It left them feeling sick and out of work for two to three weeks.

“There is no denying the crime and the impact it had on the officers,” Jackson’s attorney Claudette Caldwell said at sentencing.

Jackson was off a mood disorder medicine that may have contributed to his actions, she said. The jail tried one medicine and it didn’t work, and the staff was looking for another option to help Jackson, Caldwell said.

Jackson, in court today, apologized for the incident.

“These weren’t the right actions,” he said. “I feel bad for doing it. I’m sorry to the victims for doing that.”

Assistant district attorney Dan Punch called it “a disgusting crime” that Jackson then allegedly bragged about in the jail. Punch sought the maximum sentence and for it to run consecutively, not concurrently.

Judge Church sentenced Jackson to the maximum, and to have it added to the current sentence for assault.

“Obviously, he can’t control himself,” Church said.