Man serving pimping sentence is killed in California prison
A man serving a prison sentence for pimping was killed by another inmate, California corrections officials announced.
Shawn Jackson Jr., a 21-year-old incarcerated at the California State Prison in Corcoran, died Sunday afternoon after he was allegedly beaten by another inmate, Jarvis Richerson. The death is being investigated as a homicide.
Jackson was convicted of pimping in Orange County last year and began serving a four-year prison sentence in September.
He had been arrested at age 19 along with two other men and charged with sex trafficking a young woman and a girl under the age of 16, investigators said at the time.
Richerson, 31, has served numerous sentences for unlawful possession of a weapon. He is currently serving eight years for rape, inflicting corporal injury and assault with a firearm, the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation said.
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