A Colorado prison inmate pleaded guilty to murder in the fatal beating and strangulation of a fellow inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility in 2023, according to the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Arthur Price, 40, was sentenced to another 41 years and six months in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, assault and abuse of a corpse in the death of 65-year-old Paul Hack.
According to the district attorney’s office, Price attacked Hack in a cell then dragged his body down three flights of stairs and sat beside it as he waited for responding correctional officers.
Price made a statement that it was “what child molesters get” as he was taken away, the DA’s office said.
Hack was convicted of child sex assault and incest in Denver District Court and sentenced to prison in 2008, court records show.
Prosecutors argued that Price’s attack was not a form of “vigilante justice” but an attempt to get transferred to another prison because he had significant debt at the Limon facility, officials said Friday.
Price was already serving a 36-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing Katrina Pacheco in his apartment at 14400 E. Fremont Ave. in unincorporated Arapahoe County in 2013.
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