Officer Albert Patch
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California
End of Watch: Sunday, August 17, 1980
Cause: Stabbed

Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Officer Patch was stabbed to death at the California Medical Facility after being attacked by a prisoner who had just been stabbed himself. A second inmate was charged with murder in connection with the deaths of both the inmate and Officer Patch.

 
Photograph: Officer Albert Patch

Patch image: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California

Visit Officer Patch's memorial at www.ODMP.org