Data Analysis Unit
Estimates and Statistical Analysis Section
Offender Information Services Branch

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
State of California
March 2009

EMPLOYEES KILLED BY INMATES
January 1952 through December 2008
SUMMARY

Since 1952, inmates have killed 20 male employees of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation. Seventeen of these were custody employees, and three were non-custody
employees who supervised inmates working in industrial areas. Fifteen deaths were from
stab wounds, two were from gunshot wounds, two were from bludgeoning, and one was
from being thrown from a tier.

Report #BEH-5

Contact Person: Ravinderpal Vaid
Data Analysis Unit
(916) 445-1310

Data Analysis Unit
Estimates and Statistical Analysis Section
Offender Information Services Branch

State of California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
March 2009

EMPLOYEES KILLED BY INMATES
January 1952 through December 2008
SUMMARY

DATE

NAME

POSITION TITLE

CAUSE OF DEATH

INSTITUTION

January 14
January 14

MACKIN, Vern
WIGET, Charles

Correctional Officer
Correctional Officer

Stabbed
Stabbed

San Quentin
San Quentin

1963
June 26

PROCK, Connie

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

Deuel
Vocational Institution

1965
April 23

CANNING, Ralph

Textile Products Foreman

Stabbed

San Quentin

1970
January 16

MILLS, John V.

Correctional Officer

Thrown from Tier

Correctional Training
Facility-Center

July 23

SHULL, William

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

Correctional Training
Facility-North

1971
March 4

McCARTHY, Robert

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

Correctional Training
Facility-Central

May 19

CONANT, Kenneth

Program Administrator

Stabbed

Correctional Training
Facility-Central

July 21

DAVIS, Leo G.

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

San Quentin

August 21

DeLEON, Frank

Correctional Officer

Shot

San Quentin

August 21

KRASENES, Paul

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

San Quentin

August 21

GRAHAM, Jere P.

Correctional Sergeant

Stabbed

San Quentin

September 16

TURNER, Ronald

Laundry Supervisor

Stabbed

Folsom

1972
October 6

SANCHEZ, Jesse D.

Correctional Officer

Shot

California Institution
for Men

1952

Data Analysis Unit
Estimates and Statistical Analysis Section
Offender Information Services Branch

State of California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
March 2009

EMPLOYEES KILLED BY INMATES (Cont'd)
January 1952 through December 2008
SUMMARY

DATE

NAME

POSITION TITLE

CAUSE OF DEATH

INSTITUTION

SANDERS, Jerry

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

Deuel
Vocational Institution

OCHOA, Richard

Correctional Officer

Bludgeoned

San Quentin

PATCH, Albert

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

California Medical
Facility

SICKLES, Charles

Wood Products
Factory Supervisor

Bludgeoned

San Quentin

BURCHFIELD, Howell D.

Correctional Sergeant

Stabbed

San Quentin

GONZALEZ, Manuel A. Jr.

Correctional Officer

Stabbed

California Institution
for Men

1973
November 27

1976
April 26
1980
August 17

1981
April 1

1985
June 8
2005
January 10

Note: The two employees killed January 14, 1952 were the result of a single incident. The three employees killed
August 21, 1971 were the result of a single attempted escape incident.

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