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| Baltimore man, 20, near death after severe prison beating |
| By articles.baltimoresun.com - Kevin Rector |
| Published: 12/03/2012 |
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A 20-year-old Baltimore man serving an 18-month prison sentence on drug distribution and gun convictions at a correctional facility in Cumberland was severely beaten there Monday and is now close to death, according to his family and state corrections officials. Jerod Pridget of East Baltimore was found unresponsive and with "severe head trauma" in his cell at the Western Correctional Institution just before noon Monday and was rushed to Western Maryland Regional Medical Center, officials said. Another inmate was identified as a suspect "almost immediately," said Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. "I cannot go into investigative details, but there is nothing to suggest anything other than a tragic inmate-on-inmate assault," Vernarelli said. He did not identify the inmate suspected of the beating. On Monday night, doctors determined Pridget needed to be transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Vernarelli said. Not all inmates who are hospitalized are allowed to have family visitors, but prison officials authorized Pridget's mother, Phyllis Scott, to visit her son because of the severity of his injuries, Vernarelli said. Read More. |
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