Inmate Dies After Being Placed In Same Cell As Man He Testified ...
... makes sense .... 
Mistakes happen ......
Miami, FL (AHN) - An inmate in the Oklahoma State penitentiary was sound beaten to death after being put in a cell with the man he had testified against in a murder trial.
Prison officials said the two should not have been placed in the same cell together, and there will be an investigation.
Corrections officers found 23-year-old Paul Duran unresponsive in the cell Wednesday night, the McAlester News-Capital reported.
This was less than an hour after he was placed in the cell that was already housing 32-year-old Jesse James Dalton, who is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole, in part because of testimony given by Duran about a 2003 murder.
The two men and another person, at the time a 16-year-old boy, broke into a house intending to burglarize it. While inside, Dalton shot and killed a 19-year-old man.
Duran agreed to testify against Dalton in exchange for a lighter sentence. He also pleaded guilty of robbery with a firearm, according to the McAlester News-Capital.
But because the two were co-defendants, they should have been automatically listed as "separatees," and should never have been housed in the same cell.
Prison officials said the two should not have been placed in the same cell together, and there will be an investigation.
Corrections officers found 23-year-old Paul Duran unresponsive in the cell Wednesday night, the McAlester News-Capital reported.
This was less than an hour after he was placed in the cell that was already housing 32-year-old Jesse James Dalton, who is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole, in part because of testimony given by Duran about a 2003 murder.
The two men and another person, at the time a 16-year-old boy, broke into a house intending to burglarize it. While inside, Dalton shot and killed a 19-year-old man.
Duran agreed to testify against Dalton in exchange for a lighter sentence. He also pleaded guilty of robbery with a firearm, according to the McAlester News-Capital.
But because the two were co-defendants, they should have been automatically listed as "separatees," and should never have been housed in the same cell.
Mistakes happen ......
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