Larry Nassar

Larry Nassar, the disgraced former doctor convicted of sexually abusing young American Olympians, is in the hospital tonight after being attacked in federal prison. Let's bring in CNN's Brian Todd. He's joining us with more Brian. Wolf. Larry Nassar is now in stable condition following the attack yesterday. Tonight, we have new details on the attack and on the targeting of Nassar, which has now occurred more than once in prison. Fisher right hand, one of the most notorious convicted abusers in American history, viciously attacked in prison. Larry Nassar, former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, was stabbed ten times, including multiple times in the neck and chest Sunday during an altercation with a fellow inmate at the Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Somerville, Florida. That's according to sources familiar with the incident. And the president of the local correctional officers union who spoke to CNN, they could make weapons at anything and a metal object they can find anywhere. And they're made into a homemade weapon or midnight, according to Josie Joe Rojas and the Bureau of Prisons, corrections officers on the scene were able to save Nasser's life. Rojas says Nasser is now in stable condition. Inmates who have committed sex crimes, rapes, child molestation, they are usually targeted by other inmates. Nasser is serving essentially life in prison on various assault and pornography charges. In 2018, he admitted to sexually assaulting athletes when he was with Michigan State University and the U.S. women's gymnastics team for your own defense. According to court records, he victimized more than 330 girls and women. Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney were among the athletes. Nassar admitted to assaulting Maroney once testifying that Nassar molested her for hours in a Tokyo hotel when she was 15 years old. I was naked, completely alone with him on top of me, molesting me for hours. At his sentencing hearing in 2018 more than 150 victims gave horrific accounts of their abuse at the hands of Nassar. He engaged in degrading and humiliating sex acts without my consent. Or permission. And Larry enjoyed it. Your kindness was simply a ploy to molest me. Every chance you got I can't even put into words how much I hate you. CNN has reached out to the Coleman facility in Florida for more details on the nasty attack. We have not heard back. All right. Let's turn now to someone who knows that prison well. Jose Joe Rojas is a local president of the union representing the employees at the penitentiary. Joe, good to have you on here. I understand you're the person who told CNN the number of times Nassar was stabbed in this attack. Do we know who carried out this attack right now? Still, still under investigation. And it'll come up probably within a day or two. How could something like this happen at a prison, an attack like this? And you worked there. You know the circumstances. Are there opportunities for forensic as one inmate to attack another The problem with the with the bureau in whole is the staffing crisis we've been having. Like, for instance, about three weeks ago, we had an informational picket to let the community to know about our staffing issues. We had over 145 vacancies within the complex. 44 alone at Penn, too. So that's how it can happen when you don't have the staffing. We don't have the support from central office. The administration And things like this happen when you have officers working doubles. 16 hours back to back to back two days in a row of inmates. See the weaknesses How about getting a weapon in like this? Or is it possible someone could make their own I've worked at the state and federal prisons for over 30 years. Inmates are very, very intelligent. They can make weapons at anything So it is not farfetched that a metal object they can find anywhere and they're made into a homemade weapon, homemade knife, in your experience. What leads an inmate if that's what this turns out to be, to attack another one? Does it tend to be personal grievances? I know there's something of a hierarchy in prison Certain crimes are looked at worse than others, including attacking children. Do you have a sense of what could have been behind this particular attack? I don't know the motive for this attack because where he were secured was a programing unit. And usually in the programing unit, those inmates are well-behaved because they they we give them good programs. So it could be a number of things. Like I said, it could have been based on his criminal background. Hmm. Well, Joe Rojas, thanks for helping us try to understand this a bit better. We appreciate you taking the time Thank you so much for the time.