Calif. federal prison officer fatally stabbed
By Kelli Arena and Kevin Bohn
CNN
ATWATER, California (CNN) -- Jose Rivera survived two tours of duty in Iraq, but his job as a corrections officer at a high-security federal prison in California cost him his life.
Two inmates using a homemade shank are accused of stabbing Rivera to death in June at the United States Penitentiary in Atwater, California.
The inmates -- Jose Sablan, 43, and James Guerrero, 40 -- were indicted earlier in August and charged with murder. They have not yet entered a plea.
“It was two against one, you know, and no one helped him,” said Rivera’s grieving mother, Terry. “I didn’t think that it would happen, but it was not safe for him to work there.”
Rivera was 22 and had been in his job at the 960-plus inmate prison for just 10 months when he died.
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