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An inmate has been ordered to serve additional prison time after being found with a weapon.

Al Waxter, 42, was being housed at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility when he was found in possession of a sharpened toothbrush on Aug. 8, 2009, according to Greene County District Attorney Terry Wilhelm.

On Jan. 7 this year he was indicted for possession of dangerous contraband and was convicted on Jan. 19.

He was sentenced to an additional one and a half to three years in prison. The additional time will be served after Waxter’s original 10-year sentence for a burglary conviction in Brooklyn.

Waxter was originally committed in April 2008, with his first parole hearing scheduled for October 2015.

“These prosecutions of inmates possessing dangerous weapons have gone a long way toward making our county’s correctional facilities safer — safer for the correctional officers and civilian workers employed there and safer for inmates as well,” Wilhelm said in a statement. “My office will continue to vigorously prosecute inmates housed at either of our county’s two correctional facilities who possess dangerous weapons.”

Waxter was represented by the Chief Assistant Public Defender Joseph Stanzione and the case was prosecuted by Chief Assistant District Attorney Charles Tailleur.

At the conclusion of the sentencing proceeding, Greene County Court Judge George J. Pulver Jr. remanded Waxter back into the care of the state Department of Correctional Services.

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