Category: Line of Duty Death

Corrections Officer Daniel Nagle – EOW: December 17, 1999

Corrections Officer Daniel Nagle was stabbed to death by an inmate at the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas. Officer Nagle’s body was found in a hallway between two recreation rooms in a minimum security area. The weapon that was used was a homemade eight-inch sharpened cylinder rod. The inmate murdered Officer Nagle as revenge for […]

Correctional Officer Phillip Kenneth Curry – EOW: December 13, 1994

30 years ago,  Correctional Officer Phillip Curry was stabbed to death on the third tier of D Cellhouse at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. As prisoners were being returned to their cells after dinner, Correctional Officer Curry was stabbed in the neck and heart with a shank. He died shortly after being transported […]

Cecil H. Harbison – EOW: November 30, 1984

Correctional Officer Trainee, Cecil H. Harbison, 30, couldn’t wait for an inmate to decide whether he wanted to go to the recreation yard on the morning of November 30, 1984. Cecil took the remaining inmates to the recreation yard and that inmate remained locked in his cell until the other inmates returned later that morning. […]

Correctional Officer Louis Steven Perrine – EOW: November 17, 1994

30 years ago, Correctional Officer Louis Perrine was killed in the line of duty.   Correctional Officer Louis Perrine was killed when a tractor overturned on him as he supervised a work crew at the old Arnold Granary in North Powder, Oregon. Officer Perrine was assigned to the Powder River Correctional Institution in Oregon..   […]

Charles and Doris Farquhar – EOW: October 23, 1994

  In 1994 Charles Farquhar was the oldest warden in Alabama and had been with the department for 38 years. His wife, Doris, worked for the corrections department since 1972 as a clerk.   On October 23, 1994, 74-year-old Farquhar was murdered on the grounds, along with his wife Doris and two trustees. A 27-year-old inmate […]

Clerk Rhonda Osborne – EOW: October 21, 2004

Rhonda Lynn Osborne of Karnes City, Texas, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at the age of 33 years, 2 months, and 4 days. She was born on Aug 17, 1971, in Columbus, Ga., to Meredith Spikes Dworaczyk and Thomas L. Dworaczyk Jr. She worked for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in administrative […]

Correctional Officer George E. Miller – EOW: September 17, 1954

On September 17, 1954, three inmates of Nevada State Prison in Carson City attempted an escape from the prison.  Two high-risk suspects took Correctional Officer George E. Miller hostage as he backed a milk truck up to the prison kitchen. They forced him to drive the truck out of the prison. Other guards opened fire […]

Funeral Services for CPL Robert Sumner

  On Tuesday, July 23, 2024 members of CPOF’s National Honor Guard Team traveled to Okemah, Oklahoma for the funeral services of Corporal Robert Sumner.   Photographed is Officer Brian James presenting Corporal Sumner’s young son Avery with a CPOF Challenge coin.   Please continue to keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.   […]

Correctional Officer Corey Proulx – EOW: June 25, 2024

  Correctional Officer Corey Proulx, 49, of Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools, the state’s youth prison in Irma in northern Wisconsin, has died from his injuries after he was assaulted by a teen incarcerated there.   The teen has been charged as an adult with second-degree reckless homicide, felony murder and two felony counts of battery […]

Probation and Parole Agent Davis G. Martinez – EOW – May 31, 2024

On Saturday, June 22, 2024, more than 1,000 mourners, including scores of law enforcement officers and CPOF’s National Honor Guard Team gathered for an emotional farewell to Maryland Parole and Probation Agent Davis G. Martinez, who was killed May 31 in the line of duty. Martinez became the first parole and probation agent in Maryland […]