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  • California Prisoner's Gruesome Death Probed

    02/05/2004 10:51:04 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 263+ views
    LA Times via Yahoo! News ^ | 2/5/04 | Mark Arax - LA Times
    FRESNO — All through the night, the howls kept coming from the cell of inmate Ronald Herrera. More than one guard at Corcoran State Prison thought something was terribly amiss. Herrera wouldn't stop screaming late Sunday, and he had covered his cell window in a curtain of toilet paper soaked in blood. One guard had seen Herrera, a dialysis patient suffering from hepatitis, pull out the medical shunt from his arm, corrections officials said. But when the guard later tried to check on the inmate, his sergeant told him not to bother, they said. "He's not dead," the sergeant was...
  • $11 theft gets three-strikes career criminal 25 years to life (Barf Alert)

    11/15/2002 1:31:40 PM PST · by tuna_battle · 31 replies · 680+ views
    CNN ^ | Nov. 15, 2002 | AP
    <p>SANTA BARBARA, California (AP) -- A career criminal was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under California's three-strikes law for stealing $11 worth of wine, lip balm and breath freshener.</p> <p>Superior Court Judge Frank Ochoa called Ronald Herrera, 57, one of the worst criminals to pass through his courtroom, and prosecutor Darryl Perlin said: "He's what the three-strikes law is all about."</p>