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Inmates distracted corrections officer after fatal stabbing,
 Yakima County jail director says
By yakimaherald.com
Published: 05/20/2016

YAKIMA, Wash. -- An inmate who was fatally stabbed at the Yakima County jail went undiscovered for an extra hour because one of the murder suspects and others in the unit distracted a corrections officer, jail director Ed Campbell said Thursday.

But there’s nothing to indicate that jail staff could have prevented inmate Timothy Denton’s death, Campbell said in an interview.

“There is every indication that these officers did everything according to policy, did everything right, leading up to the incident,” Campbell said in his first statements on the second homicide in the jail’s 32-year history.

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