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| Inmate Stabbed to Death at New York Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/21/2003 |
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An inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York was stabbed to death by another prisoner Thursday, leading to a lockdown of the maximum-security prison, the state Department of Correctional Services said. Officers guarding a group of about 300 inmates in the prison yard saw an inmate strike another prisoner in the chest shortly before 10:30 a.m. The victim, Richard Rodriquez, fell to the ground and the assailant slipped back into the crowd, department spokesman Jim Flateau said. Officers discovered Rodriquez, 31, had been stabbed in the chest. He was taken by ambulance to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, where he died shortly after 11:30 a.m., Flateau said. Guards searched the prison yard and the inmates there, but did not find the weapon or identify the attacker. All the prison's 2,081 inmates were returned to their cells and will remain there until a search is completed. 'The facility remains locked down for a frisk of all the areas inmates have access to: cells, the cell blocks, prison yards, shops, classrooms,' Flateau said. 'That will take about five days.' Rodriquez was serving a sentence of 37 1/2 years to life for murder. He had been in prison since 1993. State police are investigating. It was the state's first inmate homicide since one last September at Sing Sing, Flateau said. The last homicide at Green Haven, 60 miles north of New York City, was in July 1996. There are 66,002 inmates in New York prisons. There were two homicides in the state prison system last year and one in 2001. |
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