June 28, 2008
Valley prison officer mourned
Hundreds of law enforcement officials paid their respects to U.S. Penitentiary Atwater correctional officer Jose Rivera during a service Friday at St. Patrick's Parish in Merced.
Rivera, 22, of Chowchilla was killed June 20 after being attacked by two inmates and stabbed with a homemade shank. The two U.S. Penitentiary Atwater inmates suspected in the killing are from Guam.
Jose Palacios, director of the Guam Department of Corrections, identified the two inmates suspected in the killing as James Leon Guerrero and Joseph Cabrera Sablan, 40. Palacios said they were transferred off the small Pacific island because of their violent behavior at the prison there. Guerrero was implicated in the death of a correctional officer in Guam in 1987, though he was not convicted…
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