In the confines of St. Clair Correctional Facility, a dispute over a misplaced cell phone escalated into a fatal act of violence on September 14, 2009, ending the life of inmate Michael Darrell Turner. His assailant, Taurus Jermaine Carroll, was already serving a life sentence for a prior capital murder conviction.
The conflict began when Carroll accused Turner of stealing his contraband cell phone. Despite Turner's repeated denials, Carroll, armed with a shiv fashioned from an air condit
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