Derek Chauvin is discharged from hospital and back in prison as he recovers from being stabbed 22 TIMES by Mexican Mafia snitch John Turscak

Derek Chauvin has been released from the hospital after being stabbed 22 times in prison by a Mexican gangster and FBI informant on Black Friday.

The former Minneapolis police officer, 47, has been sent back to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona to continue his recovery while he serves a 22-year prison sentence for the murder of George Floyd.

John Turscak, 52, has been charged with attempted murder after attacking Chauvin in the prison library with a “makeshift knife.” He reportedly told investigators he chose the day after Thanksgiving because of its symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement, which was sparked in part by Floyd's killing in May 2020.

The career criminal told corrections officers he would have killed Chauvin if they had not responded so quickly, according to court documents, which also showed guards had to use pepper spray to subdue Turscak.

Floyd's attorney Gregory Erickson said Chauvin's family is concerned about his safety in jail in the future after the attack and they are working to have him removed from jail.

Derek Chauvin has been released from hospital after being stabbed 22 times in prison by a Mexican mafia informant on Black Friday

John Turscak, 52, has been charged with attempted murder after attacking Chauvin with a 'makeshift knife' in the prison library (not pictured) on Black Friday

“They are still unsure that any changes were made to the flawed procedures that allowed Derek's attack to occur in the first place,” Erickson said.

Turscak, a career criminal nicknamed “Stranger,” was serving a 30-year prison sentence set to expire in 2026. He now faces decades more in prison and has been transferred to an adjacent federal prison in Tucson.

He told investigators he had been planning the attack for a month because of Chauvin's high profile, but denied wanting to kill him.

He rose to fame more than two decades ago after providing information that led to the indictments of more than 40 suspected members of the Mexican Mafia while acting as an informant, according to the Los Angeles Times.

While an informant, he was dropped from the investigation and indicted after admitting to a slew of crimes, including drug trafficking, extortion and authorizing crimes.

In addition to linking the stabbing to the BLM movement, Turscak said he chose Black Friday to honor the “Black Hand” symbol, which is associated with the Mexican mafia gang, prosecutors said.

He remains in custody with no attorney listed in the lawsuits, and he has previously represented himself in numerous legal proceedings.

His guilty plea saw him admitting that he conspired to kill a Mexican Mafia rival in the late 1990s, with whom he allegedly fought for control of the cartel's territory in Los Angeles.

In a 2005 lawsuit reported by the Star Tribune, Turscak requested a transfer from a federal prison in Atlanta because he feared his life was in “imminent danger” from fellow inmates.

He said he felt like he was being targeted “as a result of my previous cooperation with the government in the Mexican Mafia investigation and assistance to authorities here at the prison.”

After his conviction, Turscak said he believed his cooperation with the FBI would have earned him a lighter sentence, adding, “I didn't do these crimes for fun… I did them because I had to as I wanted to stay alive. '

The ex-Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for Floyd's murder after pressing his knee against his neck for more than nine minutes.

Chauvin sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 after Floyd's killing

Chauvin is serving 21 years for violating Floyd's civil rights, while also serving a 22 and a half year sentence for manslaughter.

He was convicted of Floyd's murder in May 2022 after pressing his knee on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, in horror footage witnessed by millions online.

One of the most prominent prisoners in America, he was originally housed in a maximum security prison in Minnesota before being transferred to FCI Tuscon in Arizona in August 2022.

The former police officer's attorney, Eric Nelson, has previously argued for his client to be kept out of the general prison population because of his client's notoriety.

As an expected target, Chauvin was mainly held in solitary confinement “largely for his own protection,” Nelson said last year.

Chauvin pleaded not guilty in his murder trial, claiming in his initial comments to the media last week that his trial was a “sham.”

In The Fall of Minneapolis, a new documentary exploring Floyd's death, Chauvin argued via a prison phone that the death was due to the long wait for an ambulance.

He claimed the ambulance took too long to respond to the incident and that it took an 'unnormal' 20 minutes to arrive.

He also repeatedly referred to the fact that he and other officers had been trained in MRT – Maximal Restraint Technique.