Saturday, 29 May 2021

Guards didn't notice prison inmate had beheaded cellmate and was wearing parts of his body

At Corcoran State Prison in March 2019, Jaime Osuna used a makeshife knife to decapitate and dissect Luis Romero, his cellmate. A new report found that prison guards didn't notice the torture, the killing or the hours-long dismemberment that followed, falsely reported that Romero was alive after supposedly checking the cell, didn't notice Osuna wearing a "necklace made of Romero's body parts", and faults the California Department of Corrections for bungling its investigation. — Read the rest