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| Prison inmate beaten to death |
| By Rocky Mountain News |
| Published: 04/25/2005 |
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A 65-year-old inmate from California has been beaten to death by another inmate at the Supermax federal penitentiary, the first inmate killing at the 10-year- old Florence, Colo., facility, which houses some of the country's most notorious criminals. Manuel Torrez, serving a 13 1/2- year term for racketeering in California, died about 9:45 a.m. Thursday in a hospital after being transported from the prison complex by ambulance. At Supermax, the nickname for the highest security prison on the federal correctional campus, inmates often are locked in their cells all but one hour every day and are kept from mingling with one another. Torrez, however, was housed in a general-population unit and was allowed about 13 hours outside his cell per week, some of it among other inmates in group exercise sessions, prison spokesman Mark Collins said. The FBI is working with the Bureau of Prisons on the investigation. Both agencies declined to identify the inmate suspected in the assault. Torrez was beaten on the face, neck and chest, the coroner said. Supermax houses such high- profile prisoners as Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and would-be terrorist Richard Reid, who attempted to ignite a bomb in his shoe on an airliner. |
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