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Content warning: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of a beating that led to the death of an inmate. The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it ...
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday.
Officials opened a homicide investigation at California State Prison, Sacramento, after a fight between two inmates in January led to the death of 42-year-old Joseph D. Horne.
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When proposition 34 was defeated, Michael Rushford, a death penalty supporter, said the election was a call for California officials to "streamline the appeals process, expand the pool of defense attorneys qualified to handle capital cases, and execute inmates with a single lethal drug instead of the three-drug mixture now used".
After two trials and a tearful plea for compassion, a former Sacramento prison guard was sentenced Monday to six months in prison in a “Code of Silence” cover-up involving the death of a 65 ...
Originally, the police classified the death as unexplained, and the DOC did not punish any staff until the warden was fired two years later. Two officers on duty at the time of the death later received promotions. The police began interviewing witnesses after the Miami Herald obtained public records and made a visit to the prison. [5]
The retrial of an ex-California prison guard accused of a “Code of Silence” cover-up in the death of a 65-year-old inmate began Tuesday in Sacramento, with a prosecutor telling jurors that ...