Aurora theater shooter James Holmes assaulted in Colorado prison

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Officials said an inmate assaulted the Aurora movie theater gunman James Holmes and a security officer at the Colorado state penitentiary.

Adrienne Jacobson, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, told the Denver Post the inmate lunged at Holmes and took a few swings at him while the officer was escorting Holmes through a hallway on 8 October. Holmes was not injured.

Jacobson said the 27-year-old inmate accused of attacking Holmes would be disciplined at a hearing inside the prison.

In August, a judge sentenced the 27-year-old to life in prison without parole for killing 12 people and wounding 70 others at a movie theater in suburban Denver in July 2012.

Holmes is allowed to spend four hours each day in a day hall. No other inmates are in his cellblock.