MS-13 Inmate Sentenced for Assault on Prison Staff

JACKSON, MS - A federal judge sentenced Bryan Galicia-Barillas, 29, a Guatemalan national and former inmate at Yazoo Correctional Complex on June 30, 2026, to 18 months of incarceration for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees of the United States. Galicia-Barillas had previously pleaded guilty and was serving a sentence from 2018 for conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy, involving his participation in the MS-13 gang-related murders.

Galicia-Barillas was convicted at trial on March 16, 2026, where he was found guilty of having struck a senior Bureau of Prisons official in the head with his fists during lunch on or about May 28, 2025. Galicia-Barillas will be required to serve today's sentence consecutive to his previous sentence in the Bureau of Prisons.

The FBI investigated the case.

U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger of the Southern District of Mississippi; and Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Eikhoff of the FBI Jackson Field Office made the announcement.