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AZ - MCSO: Man Accused Of Jail Killing Assaulted Another Inmate

View the article here Video is available at the site. 03/05/2009 PHOENIX - After more than two months' of requests, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office released an incident report describing a jailhouse beating. The inmate accused of the assault is Pete Van Winkle, the man who allegedly beat another inmate to death at the Fourth Avenue Jail in May. _____, who is on death row, was in a small recreational yard on Jan. 8 when Van Winkle walked in and started assaulted him, all while under the watchful eye of the detention officer who was also on duty during the May attack. - Sounds like this guard gets hit kicks by watching people fight and kill each other, and he should be fired, IMO! When detention officers asked him why he attacked _____, Van Winkle only said, "He is a sex offender so I had to do it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).