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| Tenn. Inmate Stabs, Kills Counselor |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/21/2002 |
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An inmate at a privately run prison stabbed a counselor to death Thursday with a rod-like weapon, authorities said. Delbert Steed, 57, was stabbed in the back and the arms, said Steve Owen, spokesman for Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America. The company runs the medium-security Hardeman County Correctional Facility in Whiteville where Steven L. Hugueley, 34, approached Steed as he sat in a common area of a housing unit and began stabbing him. Authorities said Steed was not counseling Hugueley, who was serving two life sentences for murder and 25 years for attempted murder. He was not eligible for release until 2057. The death is the third at prisons run by the company in Tennessee in the past six months but the first of an employee. A 54-year-old inmate was strangled in July; the prison operator attributed the death of a 22-year-old inmate in October to natural causes. 'In our 19-year history, CCA has never lost an employee in the line of duty,'' said John Ferguson, the company's president. 'Today we lost a member of our company family.'' Steed joined the county-owned, 2,016-bed prison in January 2000. Owen said counselors frequently meet with inmates who have complaints, and officers are always present. CCA, the nation's largest private prison operator, owns or operates 65 prisons in 18 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. In Tennessee, the company manages eight prisons and jails. |
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