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Pelican Bay Cellie Slayings
Loaded on June 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 3
Felipe Cruz, more than seven years into a 17-to-life sentence for second degree murder out of L.A. County, was found unconscious in his Pelican Bay SHU cell on the morning of November 1, 1997. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Prison officials said that …
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Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
California.
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