Authorities are investigating a California prisoner whose roommate died and a convicted child harasser found the body Friday at Mule Creek State Jail.
It is said that A statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They tried to resurrect him, but he was declared dead a few minutes later.
Cole, 48, was sent from Placer County to Mzi Creek. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple violent sexual offences, including having sex with children under the age of 10, verbally mating with children under the age of 14, and verbally mating with unconscious victims, according to CDCR officials.
Cole’s roommate Justin P. Welsh was placed in restricted housing, while jail authorities and the Amador County District Attorney’s Office investigated the alleged homicide. The Amador County Coroner’s Office will determine the official cause of death for Cole.
Sex offenders, especially those convicted of crimes against children, are common The goal of prison violence. According to 2015 analysis Associated Pressmale sex offenders make up about 15% of California’s prison population, but about 30% of the homicide victims in prison.
Welsh, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for gun attacks and physical injuries, both of which were sentenced to Mule Creek. According to CDCR officials, he faces an increased amount of verdicts because of domestic violence involved and previously convicted of serious felonies.
The Mule Creek State Prison opened in 1987 and has more than 3,800 prisoners. David Brinson is the same prison The convicted murderer Serve sentences in homicide cases in four districts – life imprisonment – Kill his wife During a couple’s visit in November, according to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office.
Cole’s death, if determined to be a homicide, would be the latest in a series of violent deaths in California prisons.
It is said that Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.
Last month, 39-year-old prisoner Joshua L. Peppers was allegedly deadly Attacked by fellow prisoners Authorities say it is in a prison in Lancaster. Also in March, prisoner Jake Kennedy, 32, died of Multiple stab wounds In the Sacramento Prison.
