DUBLIN — A Tracy man has agreed to an eight-year prison term for beating a fellow Santa Rita Jail inmate so badly that the victim’s eye fell out, court records show.

Michael Angel Rodriguez, 50, pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon in a plea deal with Alameda County prosecutors, court records show. The prosecution dropped a felony mayhem charge against him, and a judge has set his sentencing date for Nov. 5.

While Rodriguez remains in jail for now, he may not be there long. The agreement states Rodriguez shall receive credit for the nearly six years he has spend in jail while the case is pending, and can reduce his sentence by 20 percent with good behavior, giving him only a few months left behind bars, according to court records.

In 2019, Rodriguez beat a man inside a temporary holding tank used to change clothes at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, while an escorting Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy was nearby. The deputy grabbed Rodriguez after yelling at him to stop. A surgeon later removed “what was left” of the victim’s eye, police said in court filings.

Rodriguez has a criminal history that includes 10 prior felony convictions in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Joaquin counties spanning from 1991 to 2019. Those convictions including assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, forcible rape,  auto theft, possession of a firearm by a felon, grand theft and possession of drugs for sale.