Prison Violence

A mother sued officials at California State Prison, Corcoran, in federal court, claiming they violated their own rules by placing her son in a cell with an inmate who already had tried to murder a fellow inmate, and he decapitated her son and “was found wearing a necklace made of (his) body parts.”

SACRAMENTO — A mother accuses officials at California State Prison, Corcoran, in a federal complaint of violating their own rules by placing her son in a cell with an inmate who already had tried to murder a fellow inmate. He decapitated her son and “was found wearing a necklace made of (his) body parts," the complaint says.

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