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    Correctional Officers shooting and Killing Inmates

    This thread will be for inmates in first world countries and DR inmates in other countries that get killed by Guards.


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    Killer dies in escape attempt from Arkansas prison

    Convicted killer Christopher Wilson was shot and killed shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday as he tried to escape from the Arkansas Department of Correction's Varner unit in Grady.

    The Correction Department released few details about the circumstances surrounding Wilson's death.

    Solomon Graves, public information officer and legislative liaison for the Correction Department, said Thursday afternoon that two correctional officers involved in the shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave until the Arkansas State Police can complete an investigation, as required by agency policy.

    "Once the state police completes its investigation, additional information will be released," Graves said.

    Wilson, 41, formerly of Saltillo in Faulkner County, was serving a double sentence of life without parole for the 2002 murders of a neighbor and her 8-month-old son. He pleaded guilty in September 2003 to killing Pamela Kay Reed, 26, and her infant son Lucas Aaron Reed on Dec. 27, 2002, at their home in Saltillo.

    Wilson's death brought back a flood of memories for the investigator and prosecutors involved in the gruesome case.

    "It was an extremely, extremely violent double homicide," retired Arkansas State Police investigator Karl Byrd, the lead investigator on the case, said Thursday.

    H.G. Foster, the Faulkner County prosecuting attorney at the time, choked up while recalling details of the case.

    "It's the kind of case that stays with you," said Foster, who now serves as a circuit judge for the judicial district that includes Faulkner County. "It was a bad one."

    Wilson began attacking Pamela Reed inside her home and the struggle continued outside under a metal carport, Byrd said. Wilson broke a couple of knives stabbing Reed as the dinner she had been making continued to cook on her stove, the former investigator said. Reed's bloody footprints painted a grisly picture of the scene that unfolded, Byrd said. Police were unable to determine the exact number of stab wounds she suffered.

    The investigator said Wilson then went back into the home, where he killed the infant by striking him six times with a tile chisel that police never recovered. Byrd said Wilson told him after his arrest that he went back inside to kill the baby because "he just had to finish the job."

    Police found blood from both victims on Wilson's clothes, which he tried to hide in the woods nearby. Byrd said Pamela Reed's family agreed to Wilson's plea because they did not want to have to suffer through the details of the murders in court.

    "The story that he gave me when he confessed was that he thought that she was an informant that got him in trouble on drug charges, but I personally don't believe that's the reason that it happened," Byrd said.

    Wilson had other motives, Byrd said, but the investigator declined to discuss them.

    Wilson did not show any remorse during his interrogation, Byrd recalled, and "tried to play crazy" in an attempt to convince the investigator that he was mentally incompetent at the time of the murders.

    "When he realized that I recognized the fact that he knew what he did was wrong, he said, 'I messed up, didn't I?' I said, 'Yeah, you did," Byrd said.

    Graves said Wilson is the first Arkansas Department of Correction inmate since 1991 to die from the use of deadly force.

    Tommy L. Thompson -- a 43-year-old inmate serving time on a felony conviction of rape, burglary and aggravated assault -- was killed on Feb. 19, 1991, while attempting to kill another prisoner at the Tucker unit northeast of Pine Bluff.

    Vann Tucker was the last inmate to die in Arkansas Department of Correction custody while trying to escape, Graves said. Tucker was just shy of his 30th birthday when he was caught in an electric fence at Varner on June 25, 2013.

    Regulations outlined by the Arkansas Board of Corrections dictate that deadly force can be used on an inmate "to prevent the escape of an inmate unless the correctional officer knows or reasonably should know that the prisoner is charged with or has been convicted of only a misdemeanor, in which case only non-deadly physical force may be used."

    Deadly force is defined as "any force that under the circumstances is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury."

    State law also allows deadly force to be used on an escaping felon.

    Foster's chief deputy prosecutor at the time of the murder, 15th Judicial District Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Marcus Vaden, described Wilson's crimes as "heartless" and "ruthless."

    "Mr. Wilson was where he needed to be," Vaden said of Wilson's incarceration at the Department of Correction. "I wish I could tell you that I was really sorry for what happened to him, but under the circumstances, I'm not, just because of what he did."

    http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2...empt-20160408/

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    CDCR Investigating Deadly Force Incident at High Desert State Prison

    The High Desert State Prison (HDSP) Investigative Services Unit, CDCR’s Deadly Force investigation team, and the Lassen County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the deaths of two incarcerated people who were fatally shot by two correctional officers while committing a stabbing assault on another incarcerated person.

    On Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 10:52 a.m., Frank Nanez and Raul Cuen, attacked Anthony Aguilera with inmate manufactured weapons. Staff quickly responded, first issuing verbal orders to stop and get down, which were ignored. A warning shot from a Mini-14 rifle was fired, which had no effect. Staff then fired additional rounds when the attack continued. Chemical agents were also deployed. Both Nanez and Cuen sustained gunshot wounds. No other incarcerated people or staff members were injured. The inmate manufactured weapons were recovered.

    Medical staff responded quickly and provided first aid to Aguilera, Cuen, and Nanez. Aguilera was transported to a local hospital for further treatment. He is still hospitalized in serious condition.

    Both medical and custody staff performed CPR on Cuen and Nanez; however, Cuen was pronounced deceased at 11:37 a.m., and Nanez was pronounced deceased at 11:44 a.m.

    The officers who deployed the Mini-14 rounds are currently on administrative leave consistent with CDCR policy. Their names are being withheld due to the ongoing investigation.

    Officials have limited movement on the yard where the incident happened to facilitate the investigation. The Office of the Inspector General was notified and the Lassen County Coroner will determine Nanez’s and Cuen’s official causes of death.

    CDCR also sent the Deadly Force Investigations Team (DFIT) to HDSP assist in the investigation. DFIT is a team of trained CDCR investigators that conducts criminal and administrative investigations into every use of deadly force. A deadly force review board will conduct a full and complete review of the incident as well.

    Raul Cuen, 48, was admitted from Tulare County on January 27, 1994. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, with an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon.

    Frank Nanez, 32, was admitted from Tulare County on February 2, 2012, to serve seven years to life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, with multiple counts of an intentional discharge of a firearm.

    Anthony Aguilera, 68, was admitted from Santa Clara County in March 2007 with a life with the possibility of parole sentence for attempted first and second-degree murder, intentional discharge of a firearm, inflicting great bodily injury and committing a street gang act in the commission of a violent felony.

    HDSP opened in 1995 and houses approximately 1,700 incarcerated people. It is located near Susanville, in Northern California. HDSP offers academic classes, vocational programs, rehabilitative programs, medical services, and mental health services, religious services, work assignments and self-help groups, and employs approximately 1,000 people.

    https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/11...tate-prison-2/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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