Canada: Woman Convicted of 7th hostage-taking - committed during trial of 5th and 6th

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'Serena Nicotine used pop cans, pens as weapons in prison hostage-takings.
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On Friday, when the 31-year-old Nicotine pleaded guilty to her sixth and seventh hostage-takings.

Creagh handed Nicotine a 10-year sentence to run concurrent with the life term she is already serving. She also cautioned the Parole Board of Canada to "exercise their greatest care and concern for the risk (Nicotine) would pose to the Canadian public if she was ever to be released."

According to agreed facts of the case, Nicotine took fellow inmate Debbie Miller for nearly four hours on May 22, while both were both being held in cells at Edmonton's downtown Law Courts Building on May 22.
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At the time, Nicotine was at the courthouse to appear on charges stemming from a Feb. 21 hostage taking at the Edmonton Institution for Women.

In that incident, Nicotine grabbed inmate Sonya McLeod in a reverse chokehold and held the exposed sharp edges of the woman's glasses to her neck.

As sheriffs tried to convince Nicotine to release McLeod, she repeatedly threatened to "cut her jug."
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Court heard Nicotine has been convicted of five previous hostage-takings while behind bars, including three in Saskatchewan between 2000 and 2001, one in B.C. in 2010 and one in the Edmonton prison in 2004 where she held a piece of broken glass to the neck of a fellow convict.
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Defence lawyer George Isshak described Nicotine as "creative and cunning" and called her a "troubled person" with "serious mental health issues."'