Job Daniel Knighton
Job Daniel Knighton, 33, of Erie, was held at the State Correctional Institution at Albion in Erie County, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said he was stabbed with a homemade weapon during an assault by another man held at the prison on February 10, 2015. He was taken to UPMC Hamot hospital, where he died on Sunday, February 15, 2015. The department announced his death the following day.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says Knighton was stabbed with a homemade weapon in an inmate-on-inmate assault at SCI-Albion and died at UPMC Hamot hospital.
Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.