Man Jailed on Failure to Register Killed by Cellmate
Scott XXXX, 59, was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 5 p.m. on March 15, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He died around half an hour later due to his injuries. XXXX was admitted into the CDCR system on Feb. 23. He was serving a two-year sentence for failing to register as a sex offender.
His cellmate, Eugene Stroud, 44, is a suspect in this homicide, according to the department. Stroud is serving a 25-year, eight-month sentence for two counts of corporal injury on specific persons resulting in a traumatic condition as a second striker and one count of making criminal threats to cause great bodily injury or death as a second striker. He also received offenses for inflicting great bodily injury involving domestic violence, personal use of a dangerous or deadly weapon and has two prior felony convictions of a serious offense. He was received as an inmate on Feb. 8.
This looks like a hit to me. It has all the trimmings of correctional staff intentionally putting a person forced to register in a cell with a murderous prisoner.
Where do you see that?
Logic
I saw assaults in county and in prison. Mostly county though because there it seemed easier for other inmates to find out about charges. The CO’S are responsible for inmate safety and they often turn a blind eye.
It’s no secret in CA that any people with sex charges is automatic hit or you get hit. The recklessness of these laws, and incompetence of guards killed this man.
Why was the registrant with a 24 month sentence put in with a prisoner with a long sentence? Does California not have minimum, medium, and maximum security prisons or do they throw all those convicted together? California officials have blood on their hands that’s for sure. Sad when society hears this and thinks, “Another one bites the dust. This guy is a hero and I’m sending him money.”
If I was a family member of this guy who was obviously killed due to his charges, I would sue the hell out the jail/prison that was holding him. Why was this guy who was killed classified to be in a cell with someone sentences to such a lengthy prison sentence and criminal history? I almost feel like this was done on purpose. If it was me, I would spend every last dime to sue the entities involved and be having the jobs of the staff that was involved and have them criminally prosecuted as well.
If the legal system wants to put labels on people, then they need to pony up the money to protect those people from “vigilantes”.
So they decided to put him with a homicidal maniac, and expected nothing to happen? What a bunch of pieces of crap!
I know in Florida your housing is determined by your custody level. And any SO is automatically close custody. Wich gets your housed with the long timers with usually more severe charges.. I was in the Florida DOC when that change was made back in like 1994 or 95. I was immediately transferred to the biggest dump in the state from a juvenile center. Overnight I went from being able to go to work release to being close custody.
When I was in 2006 to 2010 I was medium the whole time. Allegedly if you finished a treatment program you could work outside the gate. But generally medium was as low as you got.
I was out by that time. Maby it changed after I left.
It is just not true that Florida automatically puts offenders in Close Custody. I served 6 years as medium custody in several institutions. Making unsubstantiated general claims without doing the research will not help anyone.
I don’t even understand why there should be a prison sentence for a mostly administrative offense, unless for the most flagrant disregard. Once a person who may have failed to register is apprehended when that person goes to get booked it should be an automatic re-register and that person should be released or given a ticket to follow up with maybe some documents showing updated info and that is it. What a waste of time and money. And life. No..nothing will change and no one else will pay the price for this..I recently found out via a friend who showed me some kind of website or social site where strangers give inmates money to attack PFRS-PERSONS Forced to Register. This is just as bad.
I’d be interested in knowing more about this website or social site. I would think that if it’s offering bounties that it might be illegal.
Hi,
I could not inquire due to the suspicion that may arise. But I saw the text. It may be on a FB page and it appeared to be the real thing. I no longer work there at the moment.
Thanks, Sasha.
Every one of those persons soliciting on that website should be arrested for conspiracy to commit violent crimes.
Soliciting on what website?
Headline says cellmate did it. Body copy says cellmate is a suspect. Sex offenders love creating drama where there is none.
You are right, Anonymous. I am sure they will do a diligent investigation and interview everyone else that was in the cell with them and perhaps we should reserve judgment until that happens. The only people in the cell were the victim and the suspect, so hopefully the investigation will be quick. All, let’s suspend all further suspicion and drama until they exclude all other suspects.
Agatha Christie couldn’t have written a better story. 27 suspects, all with motive. Somebody murdered this guy and there are plenty of accessories to the crime. Truth be told, the writer of the story would have flunked journalism class. Shoddy writing.