Ex-Subway spokesman and convicted pedophile Jared Fogle is not having an easy go of it in prison. The Indiana native and former ad man for Subway was recently attacked in a prison yard brawl, according to reports.
Fogle is serving a 16-year sentence at Colorado's Englewood FCI, a low-security prison in Litton. On Jan. 29, the sex offender was pummeled by convicted armed robber Steven Nigg and suffered a swollen face, scratched neck and bloody nose.
Nigg, 60, tackled Fogle during the altercation and repeatedly punched him in the face in the prison's recreation yard.
Nigg, who is serving time on gun charges, suffered a small cut on his hand but was otherwise unharmed. The convict reportedly grew angry with the amount of child sex offenders being held in the facility and took his anger out on Fogle.
He was punished with a stay in solitary confinement.
Fogle claimed to have lost 200 pounds by eating Subway foot-longs in the early 2000s which led to his hiring as the company's spokesman. He has reportedly gained 30 pounds in prison while stress eating amid taunts, threats and physical violence from other inmates.
Nigg is scheduled to be released from federal custody in 2024. Fogle, meanwhile, will not be freed until 2029 following his sentence for child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes.
Nigg originally served time from 1976 to 1990 after committing a string of robberies in Arizona. He then moved to Wausau, Wis., where his father had lived, got married and began working at a consignment shop. It was there that he illegally sold two guns to a private investigator hired by his stepmother and was subsequently arrested.
"We have some sympathy for Mr. Nigg, whose dangerous past caught up with him decades after he had seemingly done some work to rehabilitate himself," Judge William C. Griesbach wrote. "None the less, the (Armed Career Criminal Act) is the law of the land."
