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Oklahoma Prisoner Beaten to Death After Celled with Co-Defendant He Testified Against
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2009, page 33
On March 11, 2009, at approximately 9:15 p.m., Paul David Duran, Jr., 23, a prisoner at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) in McAlester, was found beaten to death fifteen minutes after being locked in a cell with Jessie James Dalton, 32, who was serving a sentence of life without parole ...
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Informants,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
Oklahoma.
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