FARMINGTON – A man accused of escape, arson and two assaults while at the Franklin County jail was sentenced to three years in prison Friday in a plea agreement.

Daniel M. Jackson, 26, formerly of Jay, changed his plea from not guilty to no contest on charges of reckless conduct, escape, arson and assault before Justice Joseph Jabar in Franklin County Superior Court. He was given credit for the approximately one year he’s been held at the jail and the state prison.

Jackson was charged with firing a gun inside an apartment in Wilton in July 2006. No one was injured. He got a year behind bars for that.

For scaling a razor-wire fence at the jail, he received six months, concurrent with the reckless-conduct sentence.

For assaulting an inmate at the jail and a corrections officer, and starting a fire in his cell last June, he was given two years, to run consecutively with the other sentences.

Jackson was being escorted to a church meeting in the jail, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Robinson told the court, when he pushed a corrections officer against a door in order to lunge at another prisoner. The officer was able to break up the confrontation between the two and returned Jackson to a maximum-security cell.

Later that evening, another officer was alerted to smoke coming from the cell and saw fire in the cell sink and toilet.

An extradition hearing on a charge of being a fugitive from justice was dismissed. While investigating the reckless conduct in Wilton in 2006, police discovered a warrant for his arrest in connection with his alleged escape from a New York jail.