Family Of Inmate Murdered By His Cellie Is Suing
by Bob Walsh
The
dead guy is Tou Thao. He was 3 years into a six year beef for second
degree robbery. He was beaten to death inside his cell about 18 months
ago by Jose Antonio Negrete, a much larger man, a convicted violent sex
offender of dubious mental stability who wanted to be single celled and
announced that he would kill anybody they attempted to cell with him.
Negrete is doing life for sodomy, kidnapping, sexual battery and other
various forms of nastiness.
Negrete, 46, is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder.
Negrete has contacted the family of the dead man in writing, offering to provide help in the civil suit.
The
family is asserting that the prison and the Acting Warden failed to
take reasonable steps to ensure the physical safety of Tou Thao by
housing him with a much larger known violent lifer who had flat-out
threatened to kill him to get on single cell status. I think the family
might have a legitimate beef here.
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