Tuesday, April 27, 2021

YET ANOTHER LAWSUIT AT NEW FOLSOM PRISON

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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