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Prisoner Killed in California Prison
Loaded on June 15, 2002
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2002, page 7
On the morning of Sept. 29, 2001, after his very first night in prison, Gary Avila was found dead in his cell, apparently strangled by his cellmate. Inside the cell Paul Posada paced nervously and muttered to himself. "Yeah, I did it," he allegedly confessed to a prison lieutenant. "He ...
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Mental Health.
Location:
California.
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