Clearly Somebody Screwed Up

3:21 pm EST March 14th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

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A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.

Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.

Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later.

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9 Responses to “Clearly Somebody Screwed Up”

  1. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    March 14, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    If I was in jail and this happened to me, I wouldn’t have gone in my cell. I would ask for solitary confinement till it was sorted out.

  2. calling all toasters says:
    March 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    One man’s “screw-up” is another’s “the guards were bribed.”

  3. justadood says:
    March 14, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    CAT…he was a prisoner…ask the guards–nobody cares about prisoners.

    that being said, whoever reassigned Duran should shack up with Dalton…. seems only fair

  4. El Cid says:
    March 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    calling all toasters: That was my immediate thought. This struck me as a pay-off.

  5. thorswitch says:
    March 14, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    I just wonder how much this guy’s family is going to sue the prison for. I have to say that even though the guy who was killed was a prisoner, his family may have a pretty good case.

    Of course, if this were “Law & Order” Jack would probably be able to get the guards on murder or manslaughter as the result of “reckless disregard for human life” since they should have foreseen that sticking the guy in a cell with someone he’d just testified against could result in his death.

  6. Repack Rider says:
    March 14, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Are there any suspects?

  7. Jaim says:
    March 14, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    This was an “accident” on the part of the guards.

  8. Grumpymann says:
    March 15, 2009 at 9:54 am

    “When you take someone into custody you are responsible for their care.”

    Unless you don’t want to be I guess……

  9. Wishful says:
    March 15, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    Your tax dollars at work. What have we become? Monsters.