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REPRESA – Five men – including an Oakland man already involved in three other murders – are suspected of killing a fellow inmate at California State Prison in Sacramento on Friday, authorities said.

The victim of the day room attack was Darryl Hudson, a 40-year-old Pittsburgh native serving a life sentence for murdering a PC World magazine editor during a robbery. State prison officials say Hudson was attacked by five men, lost consciousness in the course of the attack and later succumbed to his injuries. They haven’t said whether a weapon was used or if the motive has been revealed.

The attackers were identified in a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as Darryn Mayberry (30), Robert Keller (38), Tray Watson (58), Marcell Battiest (29) and Otis Wyatt (27). They were placed in solitary confinement, authorities said.

Wyatt was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison earlier this yr after being convicted of the premeditated murder of Darrell Daniel in 2016. He also pleaded guilty to a single count of manslaughter in reference to a 2016 Oakland celebration shooting that killed 20-year-old Craig Fletcher-Cooks and 22-year-old Terrence McCrary, a 21-year sentence that drew criticism from families of each victims.

Battiest and Keller were serving prison sentences for murder in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, and Watson was serving an 18-year sentence for robbery, authorities said.

Hudson was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 for the murder of Rex Farrance, 59. Farrance was a PC World editor who had been targeted for his home marijuana cultivation, authorities said on the time. On Jan. 9, 2007, 4 men broke into his home. Police believed Hudson personally killed Farrance, but he denied this at his sentencing.

“Frankly, they got the wrong person,” Hudson said at the top of the hearing.

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Originally published: August 11, 2024 at 01:00

DUBLIN – The women who once lived behind bars on the notorious Federal Correctional Institute of Dublin are all living in other locations, federal officials said Thursday.

“All women were successfully relocated. . . locations, released or moved to community housing,” Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy said in an email Thursday. “Each individual has undergone a thorough assessment to determine the best placement for them, with the aim of keeping everyone as close as possible to their expected release locations.”

Collette Peters, the director of the BOP, ordered the prison closed on April 15 after U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers concluded in March that “Dublin is a dysfunctional mess.” The situation isn’t any longer there tolerable.”

In his statement, Murphy characterized the prison closure as “temporary.” He said no employee will lose their jobs as a result of the closure.

Eight prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing prisoners at FCI Dublin. Seven of them were convicted.

Rogers also noted in March that there was ongoing retaliation for the conviction and sentencing of prison officials guilty of criminal sexual abuse and contact and said a special warden would be appointed to provide unprecedented oversight.

A month later, federal officials announced they were closing the facility.

Inmates said the abuse hasn't stopped. Inmates told the Bay Area New Group that the hasty transfer of more than 600 inmates to prisons as far away as Miami and Minnesota involved strenuous bus rides and cross-country flights with nowhere to go. Some prisoners said they had to travel without medical prescriptions or hygiene products.

“People were crying. I was scared the whole time,” inmate Sara Victoria, 47, told the Bay Area News Group last month after she got stuck on the parked bus. “We just didn’t know where we were going or what we were doing.”

Some inmates languished on buses in the Dublin prison car park for over five hours before returning to their cells without explanation. Their only meals were frozen sandwiches, they said. The bus ran out of toilet paper.

Staff writer Julia Prodis Sulek contributed to this story.