Inmate Death
January 23, 2012
Inmate Death at SATF in Corcoran Being Investigated As A Homicide
Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) are investigating an inmate death as a homicide.
Jeffrey Lynn Goodwin, 43, was found on the institution’s recreation yard with an apparent head injury Thursday, January 19. Goodwin succumbed to his injuries at approximately 12:40 p.m. Sunday, January 22.
Officials from the prison and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office have named inmates Cedric Jerome Mills, 47, and Charles Morris, 41, as suspects in the case. Both inmates have been placed in administrative segregation while the investigation continues...
LINK - CDCRToday.Blogspot.com
January 4, 2012
Inmate firefighter dies on training hike at Camp San Luis Obispo
An inmate firefighter assigned to Cuesta Fire Camp, located at the California Men’s Colony, died while taking part in a County/Cal Fire training program at Camp San Luis Obispo.
Cal Fire Capt. Jane Schmitz said the inmate collapsed while hiking on the military base shortly after 3:30 Wednesday afternoon...
LINK - SanLuisObispo.com
December 5, 2011
Death of Prisoner at Lancaster Jail Being Investigated as Homicide
An inmate at Lancaster State Prison was found dead Sunday and investigators believe his cellmate may be to blame.
The prisoner, who was serving time for a second-degree robbery, was found dead in his cell Sunday after guards found him unresponsive.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the man's cellmate passed a note to guards during breakfast saying he appeared to be dead...
LINK - KTLA.com
November 19, 2011
Condemned Inmate Brandon Wilson Dies of Suicide
Condemned inmate Brandon Wilson, 33, who was on death row for the murder of a 9-year-old boy, was found hanging in his cell this morning at San Quentin State Prison. Wilson was pronounced dead at 6:47 a.m. He was single-celled.
Wilson was sentenced to death by a San Diego County jury on November 4, 1999, for the November 14, 1998, murder of Matthew Cecchi in an Oceanside park restroom...
LINK - CDCRToday.blogspot.com
November 4, 2011
Girl’s killer slain in cell (at Mule Creek)
A man convicted of raping and murdering a Manteca High School student in 2000 has been killed in his cell, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Ty Lopes, 44, was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m. Monday after officials at Mule Creek State Prison found him unresponsive in his cell.
His cellmate, James Booker, 44, has been named the main suspect in the killing, according to CDCR...
LINK - Recordnet.com
October 17, 2011
Inmate death at Corcoran investigated as homicide
A death early Sunday morning at California State Prison-Corcoran is being investigated as a homicide.
A 59-year-old inmate, serving 25 years to life on a Three Strikes conviction, was pronounced dead shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday at the facility’s John D. Klarich Memorial Hospital. Cause of death had not been determined Sunday, but the Kings County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the death as a homicide...
LINK - HanfordSentinel.com
October 7, 2011
Inmate stabbed to death at California State Prison-Sacramento
An inmate was stabbed to death this morning at California State Prison-Sacramento.
The inmate was attacked at the Folsom area prison during regularly scheduled recreation time. The prisoner, who was incarcerated in the Secure Housing Unit, was assaulted about 7:45 a.m. today.
Medical personnel pronounced him dead 15 minutes later from multiple stab wounds...
LINK - SacBee.com
October 5, 2011
RJD inmate found dead
...Another inmate in the Richard J. Donovan State Correctional Facility was also found dead in the prison on Monday, according to the Sheriff’s Homicide unit.
Prison guards were conducting an inmate movement when they found the man lying unconscious. They later pronounced him dead of unknown causes, according to the Sheriff's department.
The homicide unit is also investigating this death...
LINK - NBCSanDiego.com
July 12, 2011
Homicide suspected in death of Wasco State Prison inmate
Kern County authorities are investigating as a homicide the death of an inmate from Los Angeles at Wasco State Prison.
The 54-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, was found dead in his cell in the prison’s reception center late Friday, according to a statement released Tuesday by the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation...
LINK - LATimes.com
March 28, 2011
Deaths cited in criticisms of double-cell prison policy (DVI-focused)
Richard Henry Kase murdered his cellmate at Deuel Vocational Institution by punching him in the Adam's apple. He shoved a towel down the man's throat and pinched his nose as the life drained out.
Michael James Steele said he warned prison staffers that it wasn't a good time for him to have a cellmate. Despite announcing homicidal feelings, he said they put him in with another man. Now, he's charged with attempted murder.
John Joseph Lydon already murdered one cellmate before being sent to Deuel. He told prison staffers that he couldn't tolerate being in a cell with a child molester. Lydon now faces a potential death sentence after being charged with murdering a second cellmate...
LINK - RecordNet.com
March 1, 2011
(Another) Death Row Inmate Dies of Natural Causes
A San Quentin State Prison death row inmate died Monday of natural causes at a hospital outside the prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said this afternoon.
Richard Ray Parson, 67, was received on death row from Sacramento County on Oct. 22, 1996, according to the CDCR.
He was convicted of killing 60-year-old Theresa Schmiedt at a Sacramento apartment complex on Jan. 2, 1994, CDCR spokeswoman Peggy Bengs said...
LINK - FoxReno.com
February 23, 2011
Inmate stabbed to death at Centinela State Prison
Centinela State Prison administrators are investigating the death of inmate Steven Fimbres.
Fimbres, 36, came to the California Department of Corrections in 2002 and was serving a 19-year sentence from Kern County for first-degree burglary.
At 2:20 p.m. Monday, Fimbres was attacked by two inmates while in the maximum security yard. Custody staff stopped the attack, but Fimbres sustained several puncture wounds and was pronounced dead at 3 p.m. at Centinela's emergency room. There were no injuries to staff...
LINK - Bakersfield.com
January 5, 2011
Another dead inmate at GEO Group-run private prison
Hobbs police have released the name of an inmate who died at the Lea County Correctional Facility.
The inmate is identified as 31-year-old Paul Lasner. He was transported to Lea Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead Monday.
Hobbs police say the death is being investigated as a homicide...
LINK - NewsWest9.com
December 8, 2010
Lawsuit filed in prison death of illegal immigrant
Family members of an illegal immigrant found dead in a federal prison filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Texas facility, where inmates took hostages and set fires during a riot after the man's body was carried out.
The 96-page federal lawsuit revives attention on the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, about 175 miles east of El Paso. The prison came under scrutiny in 2008, following the death of Jesus Manuel Galindo and two riots just six weeks apart that caused an estimated $1 million in damage.
Galindo died in December 2008 after the 32-year-old had an epileptic seizure while placed in solitary confinement, his family's attorneys said. The lawsuit accuses the facility of being indifferent to prisoners' medical needs and using solitary confinement to punish inmates who complained of being sick...
LINK - KHQ.com
December 8, 2010
Lawsuit filed in prison death of illegal immigrant
Family members of an illegal immigrant found dead in a federal prison filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Texas facility, where inmates took hostages and set fires during a riot after the man's body was carried out.
The 96-page federal lawsuit revives attention on the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, about 175 miles east of El Paso. The prison came under scrutiny in 2008, following the death of Jesus Manuel Galindo and two riots just six weeks apart that caused an estimated $1 million in damage.
Galindo died in December 2008 after the 32-year-old had an epileptic seizure while placed in solitary confinement, his family's attorneys said. The lawsuit accuses the facility of being indifferent to prisoners' medical needs and using solitary confinement to punish inmates who complained of being sick...
LINK - KHQ.com
August 29, 2010
San Quentin inmate found dead in cell
A prison guard doing routine checks found a 70-year-old San Quentin inmate dead in his death row cell early Saturday, prison officials said.
George Hatton Smithey apparently hanged himself with his bed sheets, Lt. Sam Robinson said.
Smithey had been on death row since July 1989 for the 1988 murder and attempted rape of Cheryl Anne Nesler during the commission of an armed robbery and burglary, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement...
LINK - MariniJ.com
June 10, 2010
Another Hawaii inmate dead at CCA private prison in Arizona
A second Hawaii inmate has died at a private prison in Arizona this year.
Hawaii Public Safety Department's deputy director for corrections, Tommy Johnson, says investigators will travel to Saquaro Correctional Center in investigate the death of 23-year-old Clifford Medina.
He was pronounced Tuesday, half an hour after his cellmate reported him unresponsive. Medina was serving time for burglary, theft, jumping bail and assaulting a law enforcement officer...
LINK - KOLD.com
April 14, 2010
Private (CCA) Prison Guards Let Man Die, Family Says
Private prison guards let a suicidal prisoner suffer seizures, lapse into a coma and die of a drug overdose, and merely "put the decedent in an observation cell and ... check(ed) his vital signs every six hours," his family claims in Federal Court. The family sued the Corrections Corporation of America and several of its employees, including two doctors.
Corrections Corporation of America runs the West Tennessee Detention Facility, where Alan Young died on April 11, 2009, according to the complaint. Young's family claims the prison staff knew he was suicidal and that he was saving up the psychotropic medications he was given daily so that he could take them all at once to commit suicide.
The staff "did not take any measures to ensure that he was actually taking the medication that they were giving him," according to the complaint...
LINK - CourthouseNews.com
February 19, 2010
Hawaii inmate killed in Arizona prison
Authorities have started an investigation into the killing yesterday of a Hawaii inmate at Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona, where about 1,900 Hawaii inmates are currently housed.
Clayton Frank, state Department of Public Safety director, identified the inmate who was killed as Bronson Nunuha, 26. He was incarcerated on three counts of burglary in the second degree, and was going to be maxing out on his sentence on Oct. 31, 2010, Frank said.
Frank said Nunuha had been at the facility for about four years...
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
January 5, 2010
Private prison operator GEO Group get sued (again) for wrongful death
The family of the man, who's death started the first Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) riot, is planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Attorney's representing the family of Jesus Manuel Galindo say they're close to filing a wrongful death civil suit against GEO Group, the company that runs the detention center, along with the Physicians Network Association who provides medical care for the inmates.
You'll remember Galindo died in December 2008 after not receiving medicine for his epilepsy and being placed in an isolation cell…
LINK - NewsWest9.com
September 20, 2009
Study: Poor mental health treatment contribues to California inmate suicides
Suicide rates inside California's prison system continue to exceed national rates, partly because state prison officials provide inadequate treatment, intervention and assessment of troubled inmates, a new report concludes.
The report, filed in federal court as part of a pending suit against the state seeking to remedy unconstitutional mental health care for prisoners, studied all 34 inmate suicides from 2007 and found some who should have been placed under mental health care screening but were not and cases where cardiopulmonary resuscitation was not performed quickly enough or properly.
Some inmates assessed as having "severe" suicide risks were not handled properly, and documentation on some of the suicides was so sloppy that required reporting on them still has not been completed, the study found…
LINK - SacBee.com
August 14, 2009
Inmate dies of natural causes after 26 years on death row
A murderer who spent 26 years on death row has died of natural causes, the 70th condemned prisoner to succumb to old age, suicide or murder compared with 13 executed by the state since capital punishment resumed in 1978, the state reported Thursday.
Albert Cecil Howard, 57, died at a hospital near San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.
Howard was convicted and sentenced to death a year after the May 25, 1982, murder of 74-year-old Lois Roy Fried of Tulare County…
LINK - LATimes.com
August 5, 2009
CMF Inmate Found Dead After Fight
An inmate at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville died Tuesday after a fight with his cellmate.
Nexter Sedillo, 50, and his cellmate fought at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations spokeswoman Terry Thornton said.
Medical staff responded but Sedillo was pronounced dead at 12:59 p.m., Thornton said…
LINK - CBS5.com Local Wire
July 30, 2009
Report finds detainees’ rights routinely violated in U.S. immigrant detention
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has been systematically violating its own minimum monitoring standards in regulating immigration detention centers across the country, according to a new report released Tuesday. The report is based on an analysis of previously unreleased inspection data on dozens of ICE facilities between 2001 and 2005.
In recent months, Facing South has reported on the problems in U.S. immigrant detention, highlighted by the mounting number of immigrant deaths in ICE detention centers. For the past year, reports of abuse, neglect, inhumane treatment, and inadequate health care in immigration custody have been surfacing across the country. Immigrant rights groups have criticized ICE's detention standards and inspection procedures, and have also steadily lodged complaints about detainees' rights being violated…
LINK - SouthernStudies.org
July 13, 2009
Texas officials wary of prison company contract
A private prison company with a history of problems in Texas has caught the attention of state officials with a $7.5 million contract to run a new psychiatric hospital near Houston.
Lawmakers budgeted funding for the future Montgomery County facility starting in 2011. But they told The Dallas Morning News they didn't know until the past week that the county selected a GEO Group subsidiary to operate it.
The Boca Raton, Fla.-based company's problems with Texas facilities date to 2006 and include allegations of atrocious conditions, the hiring of a convicted sex offender as a guard and the suicides of at least two inmates…
LINK - KrisTV.com
July 7, 2009
Sanctions against The GEO Group sought
An appellate court is weighing claims against The GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., to determine if the private prison business lied when it claimed to have been exonerated of any responsibility in the beating death of an inmate and if it should be sanctioned.
The family of the late Gregorio de la Rosa Jr., killed by two inmates in 2001 in a jail facility then-operated and managed by Wackenhut in Raymondville under contract with the state, is seeking the sanctions from the Thirteenth Court of Appeals.
The family claims in court records that GEO "continues its disgusting display of disrespect for Texas' civil justice system," by lying to the government, investors and the business community in an April 30 report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
LINK - BrownsvilleHerald.com
June 18, 2009
Dead inmate’s family sues GEO private prison in Texas after riots, other problems
The death of a 32-year-old epileptic inmate in solitary confinement at Reeves County Detention Center last Dec. 12 touched off the first of two riots that saw fires set and hostages taken, said an attorney who represents the inmate's family.
Some of the privately-run federal lockup's 2,400 inmates, many of them illegal immigrants, had complained of woeful health care after the riots west of Pecos on Dec. 12-13 and Jan. 31-Feb. 1.
But the story now centers on 32-year-old Jesus Manuel Galindo of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, who El Paso lawyer Miguel "Mike" Torres" claims was improperly treated…
LINK - MyWestTexas.com
June 14, 2009
Another private prison detainee dies in custody
An autopsy shows a detainee at a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia died of natural causes.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said Thursday 39-year-old Roberto Martinez Medina died of myocarditis, an inflammatory heart disease.
Martinez, a Mexican national, was being held at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin - which is operated by the same company that plans to open a similar facility in Gainesville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Martinez died March 11 at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus…
LINK - AccessNorthGA.com
May 12, 2009
Prison Officials: Inmate Stabbed to Death by 2 Convicted Murderers
An inmate was found stabbed to death in a prison yard Monday, allegedly by two other inmates who were serving sentences for murder.
Officials at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi say the attack on Evan Broderick, 20 happened out in the open in the prison yard.
Broderick's body was found with multiple stab wounds. Prison officials have not released the details of what kind of weapon was used or how the weapons were obtained.
The two suspects, Travis Frazier, 26, and Kenneth Nowlin, 29, are both serving sentences for murder at the minimum-to-maximum security prison which houses 5,800 inmates…
LINK - KTLA.com
May 12, 2009
Prison yard stabbing leaves one inmate dead
A 20-year-old inmate's three year sentence for grand theft was cut short yesterday morning following a fatal stabbing in the prison yard at the California Corrections Institution in Tehachapi.
The victim , Evan Broderick, of Sonoma County, died from multiple stab wounds shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday, according to a prison media release.
A prisoner-improvised weapon was discovered at the crime scene…
LINK - TehachapiNews.com
April 18, 2009
Calif. deputies cleared in shooting of parolee
Sonoma County prosecutors say deputies acted in self defense when they fatally shot a Rohnert Park man who fired at them two years ago.
District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua on Friday cleared the three deputies of any wrongdoing in the May 2007 death of Luis Felipe Sanchez. The ruling capped a lengthy investigation that prosecutors say involved an extensive forensic analysis…
LINK - MercuryNews.com
April 8, 2009
GEO Group Must Pay $42.5 Million in Beating Death
In a searing opinion, the 13th Court of Appeals has upheld $42.5 million in punitive damages against a private prison operator for the "horrific and gruesome death" of inmate Gregorio De La Rosa Jr. in 2001.
De La Rosa was beaten to death by two other inmates at a 1,000-bed facility in Raymondville while guards and supervisors looked on, according to trial testimony three years ago.
The trial judge concluded that prison officials, including co-defendant David Forrest, the prison warden, had destroyed or lied about critical evidence, including a videotape of the fatal beating…
LINK - MySanAntonio.com
October 31, 2008
Prison Corporation (GEO Group) Charged with Murder, Manslaughter
The indictment grows out of the April 26, 2001 death of an inmate at one of the company's facilities in Raymondville, Texas. The inmate – Gregorio De La Rosa – was beaten to death by fellow inmates with socks stuffed with padlocks.
The murder count alleges that the company "intentionally or knowingly" caused the death of De La Rosa by allowing the inmates to beat De La Rosa to death.
One of the manslaughter counts allege that the company "recklessly allowed" the beatings to occur. The other manslaughter count alleges that the company intended to cause serious bodily injury while committing a felony – aggravated assault…
LINK - CorporateCrimeReporter.com
September 15, 2008
Inmate death rate drops 30% in state prisons
The death rate of California prison inmates has dropped almost 30% since the beginning of 2006, a court-appointed monitor reported today.
J. Clark Kelso, the court-appointed receiver for inmate medical care, said the drop was an indication that his office is succeeding in reducing the number of preventable deaths in state prisons due to inadequate access to care, poor quality treatment and other factors.
In a report to U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who is overseeing an inmate lawsuit, Kelso said about 204 inmates per 100,000 died in state prisons in the second quarter of 2008. That was down from about 291 deaths in the first quarter of 2006. Kelso did not say how many he thought could have been prevented…
LINK - LATimes.com Blog
August 13, 2008
CCA: Fla. prison accused in inmate’s staph death
The family of an inmate who died from a drug-resistant staph infection claims she contracted it because she had been deprived of water for bathing and toilet use at a privately operated state prison.
A lawyer representing the estate of Emma Nobles, who died of MRSA Dec. 15, 2005, at a Tallahassee hospital, made that allegation in letters to two state agencies. The letters are a preliminary step for a possible wrongful death lawsuit.
Water was turned off for days at a time at the prison for women in nearby Gretna, apparently as a cost-cutting measure, the attorney, Patrick R. Frank, said in an interview Wednesday…
LINK - FortMillTimes.com
May 30, 2008
New Folsom Prison frees up some space
Inmate overcrowding is lessening at the state prison nicknamed New Folsom, but a questionable convict death last month currently clouds a program that moves California inmates to out-of-state private custody.
Progress on prison crowding comes under legislation, AB 900, designed to fund prison construction, provide for transfer of California inmates out-of-state and reduce the number of drug offenders housed in state prisons.
At the local California State Prison, Sacramento, just uphill from Folsom State Prison, officials have nearly emptied a couple of gymnasiums formerly full of what are known as "bad beds," said spokeswoman Judy Loer. Bad beds are any non-regulation sleeping arrangements that have been made up in prison gyms and clinics around the state's penal institutions…
LINK - EDHTelegraph.com (El Dorado Hills Telegraph)
May 25, 2008
Indiana: Dead inmate’s family sues sheriff and jail
A Marion County Jail II inmate was denied blood-pressure medication before he collapsed and later died of hypertension, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Marion Superior Court.
The lawsuit was filed by attorneys who have filed other complaints challenging medical care at the privately run jail. It says the jail's medical staff failed to give Brian Keith Allen, 33, regular doses of his medication, despite at least one high blood pressure reading.
He collapsed Nov. 25, 2006, and died five days later in a hospital. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of his estate and his mother, Ella Mae Allen, names Corrections Corporation of America, two medical staff members and Sheriff Frank Anderson…
LINK - IndyStar.com
May 25, 2008
California’s outsourcing of prison space comes under question
An inmate's death in Mississippi has raised concerns for California's prison medical czar about an arrangement to send thousands of prisoners to do their time out of state.
In a letter to the Corrections Corporation of America, receiver J. Clark Kelso's top aide said his office wants to talk to the firm about the "long-term viability" of its $115 million contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The company houses 3,904 California inmates on its out-of-state contract in six prisons located in Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arizona. California's deal with CCA calls for it to house nearly 8,000 prisoners over the next three years…
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
May 2, 2008
Delco Prison: “Too many deaths”
Too many inmates are dying at Delaware County's jail.
Since 2005, at least eight inmates have died at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Thornton, the only privately run jail in Pennsylvania. The latest fatality is Kenneth Kallenbach, 39, who died April 24 after contracting pneumonia at the lockup. He had been held there awaiting trial since mid-March. Last year, a woman died at the jail after being held there for six weeks. She suffered from a thyroid condition; her family said she was not receiving her medication. In 2005, five inmates died in five months. Two were apparent suicides; one was a heroin overdose.
GEO Group, which operates the facility, has faced lawsuits over these deaths. It has problems elsewhere. In Texas, where GEO runs more than a dozen prisons, it has come under criticism for alleged mismanagement and foul conditions. One inspector called an adult facility in Texas operated by GEO the worst he'd ever seen…
LINK - Philly.com (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
March 25, 2008
US court questions legality of lethal injections
Capital punishment is back in the headlines in the United States, as the Supreme Court prepares to hand down a crucial ruling on the legality of lethal injections.
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The Supreme Court is currently considering whether prisoners suffer pain during the lethal injection process. A growing number of doctors believe inmates do. Mr Givens had no medical training and yet he was expected to insert needles, mix drugs and perform complicated procedures. If a mistake is made, the inmate could be tortured to death…
LINK - ABC News
March 14, 2008
Suit alleges San Quentin inmate died due to poor medical care
The mother of a San Quentin State Prison inmate has filed suit alleging that her son died in 2006 because he received inadequate care for his diabetes. "I can't get over the feeling that my son was essentially murdered by the prison system," said Christine Goodwin of Modesto.
Her son, Scott Fitzgerald, who was in custody at San Quentin due to a parole violation following a battery conviction, died Sept. 12, 2006, after being taken by ambulance to Marin General Hospital. Fitzgerald was 34 when he died.
The suit pending in U.S. District Court in San Francisco names San Quentin Warden Robert Ayers, other prison personnel and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as defendants.
LINK - MarinIJ.com (Marin Independent Journal)
March 11, 2008
Two inmates’ deaths probed amid flu outbreak at Chuckawalla prison
Corrections officials deflected charges of medical neglect Monday in the deaths of two inmates at a prison that over the past three weeks has been ravaged by an outbreak of the flu.
Some 740 inmates have fallen ill at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in the Southern California desert since Feb. 23, according to a spokeswoman. Officials have since halted all transfers of inmates into and out of the prison.
The wife of one of the inmates who died said other convicts told her that her husband sought medical help but was "turned away" before he succumbed to his illness last Wednesday, four days after the first inmate death.
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
Related: Two inmates' deaths investigated amid massive flu outbreak - March 10, 2008 - CCPOA News Blog
January 25, 2008
Cellmate a Suspect in Folsom Inmate’s Death
An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, was discovered dead Wednesday morning with an apparent stab wound to his neck, according to prison authorities. Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said that shortly before 10 a.m., a doctor doing a routine check found the 33-year-old victim unresponsive in his cell at the Folsom facility. He was pronounced dead with what appears to be a stab wound…
LINK - SacBee.com
