'Austin Powers' actor allegedly kills sex offender in prison

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: la times

An "Austin Powers" actor convicted of torturing a woman in Orange County is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central Valley prison, authorities said Tuesday.

Joseph Hyungmin Son, 40, allegedly killed his 50-year-old cellmate, who was found dead Monday afternoon at Wasco State Prison Reception Center in Kern County.

The cellmate was a parole violator who had been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, according to a prison report. A cause of death was pending.


Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/inmate-killed-at-wasco-state-prison.html

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awful.

[Scurrilous]

1. So a guy sentenced to life in prison without parole for a violent torture & rape..

...was sharing a cell with a parole violator?

That's messed up.

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[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. No loss?

Someone died.

I'd say that's a loss. Incredible, the lack of respect for life.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. agreed. The parole violator's sentence wasn't death.

[TheMadMonk]

10. A sex offender is as sex offender. Pissing in a doorway is the same as...

...raping a kid.

American law demands it. Polititians waving their dicks at each other made it so. And the American People cheered them on. My people are just as bad, so not casting aspersions, just stating facts.

[Sirveri]

11. could be worse since the article doesn't say what the rape charge was.

For all we know it could have been from a 19 year old having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend or something similar. Doesn't register and then gets a death sentence in jail.

[MessiahRp]

3. That guy got punched in the testicles about a hundred times by Keith Hackney before tapping out

You have to be messed up to be able to absorb that.

Rp

[Poll_Blind]

6. That was Joe Son? Oh man, I remember that. That nutpunching ripped a hole in spacetime.

And it wasn't just ball punching, it was full White Tiger Kenpo Ball Punching.

PB

[Towlie]

4. He was "convicted of torture"? If he had used "enhanced interrogation" instead he'd have gotten off.

[valerief]

8. Whoever put them in the same cell should be prosecuted. nt

[hang a left]

9. Bottom line he should have been in administrative segregation

Wasco is a receiving prison where inmates go to be evaluated and classified. The California prison system is overwhelmed that is why things like this happen. This one just made the news.

[Tempest]

12. Wasco prison is one of the most fucked up prisons in CA

Nurses stealing medications, water too contaminated for the community to drink but still served to inmates and murders and assaults on a regular basis.

In March a guy serving time for possession was murdered by his cellmate who was in for kidnapping and rape.

I live in Kern County and read about the prison problems in the paper on an almost daily basis.