But according to a lawsuit against the state's Department of Corrections, his life was cut short when he was stabbed inside his cell, dragged into the prison yard by correctional officers and left to die. The suit says prison personnel walked by him, leaving him to bleed to death on New Year's Eve 2017. "Allen did something wrong," Dickson said Thursday. Over the course of the video, Capers was approached by correctional officers several times, but he was not given medical treatment. "It's not a death sentence just because you go to prison," Dickson said.

Source: CNN April 18, 2019 20:26 UTC