CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 17, 2005 | Jenifer Warren, Times Staff Writer
The fatal stabbing of an officer by an inmate at the Chino men's prison might have been prevented if guards had not routinely violated security protocols and if managers had properly housed the alleged assailant in a cell for violent convicts, an investigative report concluded Wednesday. In response to the findings, state corrections officials placed Warden Lori DiCarlo and two chief deputies on paid administrative leave and launched a widespread audit of prison operations.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 10, 2006 | Stuart Pfeifer, Times Staff Writer
A Los Angeles County Jail inmate beat his cellmate to death, the fourth homicide in the nation's largest jail system in the last year, authorities said Thursday. Sheriff's officials said they did not know what prompted the assault late Wednesday or how long it lasted. Deputies said they learned of the beating from inmates who reported that a man was down in the fifth-floor mental health module at downtown's Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 18, 2005 | Stuart Pfeifer and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
Inmates at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail beat and stomped another inmate to death after guards locked them in an unsupervised holding room this week, raising new questions about a system plagued in recent years by murders and attacks behind bars. The incident was the eighth killing inside the jail in the last two years and came despite assurances by Sheriff Lee Baca last year that he was taking steps to increase security and improve segregation of violent inmates.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 14, 2004 | Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer
Shane Wilson is tough and tattooed, a former Nazi Low Rider gang member with a long criminal record. "I'm a big guy, I'm a bad guy," Wilson said in a jailhouse interview Thursday. But when he agreed to testify against a suspected murderer in exchange for a lighter sentence, Wilson said, "I was scared for my life." Witnesses are targets, he said, especially in jail: "In my world, if you testify, you put your life in jeopardy -- bottom line."
WORLD
January 24, 2008 | Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer
Hector Febres was the man who knew too much. And, like a character in a spy novel damned with an excess of secrets, Febres met an untimely and grisly end: He was poisoned last month in his cell. That is the conclusion of Argentine officials investigating the death of the former coast guard officer, who was awaiting a verdict on charges of torture. The case arose from Febres' service under a military dictatorship decades earlier at the country's most notorious clandestine detention center.
NEWS
January 22, 2001 | RICHARD A. SERRANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
David Paul Hammer appears fated to die the way he killed his cellmate, Andrew Hunt Marti--inside a small prison room, his arms and legs strapped down, lying face up to a world that will do just as well without him. Hammer murdered Marti nearly five years ago, slowly strangling him in his lower bunk in cell 103 of the Allenwood penitentiary. With the federal government soon to begin executing prisoners again, Hammer at this moment is the first in line.