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Mom sues Hays State Prison officials after inmate killed

3,301 views · Published 5 September 2013 · 0:51 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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The mother of an inmate killed at Hays State Prison wants officials held accountable for ignoring the security crisis attorneys say led to her son's death.

RoHonda MacClain is filing a lawsuit against eight top officials, from state Commissioner Brian Owens to former warden Clay Tatum. It also includes the two guards on shift when 27-year-old Damion MacClain was killed on Christmas night.

The lawsuit says prison officials contributed to the increase in violence, stating supervisors were aware for five years that cell doors could be unlocked with only a scrap of toilet paper.
And that they warned inmates before searches for contraband weapons.

Damion MacClain was found stabbed, strangled and beaten at the prison. He was one of four inmate deaths in just two months.

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