CHICAGO — The man who randomly stabbed and badly injured a Red Line passenger in Uptown last summer (while on pretrial release for attacking a CTA bus driver) has been given a seven-year prison sentence: five years for the stabbing and two for the earlier case.
Trent Prusinski, 24, pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery of a transit employee before Judge Kenneth Wadas, court records show. Wadas ordered the sentences served consecutively.
Prusinski was on the streets last September 2, even though prosecutors had asked Wadas to keep him in jail for allegedly violating his nighttime curfew and getting arrested again while awaiting trial in the bus driver attack…