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Kenneth E. Conant
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Corrections Employee

Kenneth E. Conant

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — Sacramento, CA
Felonious
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End of Watch May 19, 1971
Age 49
Tour of Duty 20 yrs
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Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 41

Incident

Program Administrator Kenneth Conant was stabbed to death by two inmates in the head with a prison made knife while working at the Central Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. Two other prison officials were injured in overpowering the inmates. The inmates, 24, and 28, serving 5 years to life for robbery since 1967, were charged with his murder. There was no known motive. On August 30, 1972, one inmate, 28, convicted of murder and had a life term added to his sentence. He was denied parole on March 3, 2021. He can have another parole hearing in March of 2024. He is in a prison health care facility in Stockton. The other inmate was declared insane and committed. In 1974 he was adjudged fit to stand trial, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life. He was denied parole on February 28, 1980. On September 21, 1982, he hanged himself in his cell.

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20 years. You could have gone home.
Corrections Employee Conant gave the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 20 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of California. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Employee Conant.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Type Corrections
Location Sacramento, CA
Platform Identity cdcrcorr.sacramento.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 19, 1971
Tour of Duty 20 yrs
Age 49
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Edged weapon

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Kenneth is one of 15,742 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,102 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1971, 168 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 18th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Kenneth was 49. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Kenneth had served 20 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

May holds 8% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Wednesdays: 12.9%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was edged weapon, in 2.2% of these deaths.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has 42 officers remembered here, Kenneth among them.

Across the years
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Where

Corrections Employee Kenneth E. Conant

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation · End of Watch May 19, 1971

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 27-W

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