Corrections Employee Charles Sickles
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California
End of Watch: Wednesday, April 1, 1981

Biographical Info
Age: 65
Tour of Duty: 23 years
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Stabbed
Date of Incident: Monday, March 30, 1981
Weapon Used: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect Info: Sentenced to death

Officer Sickles succumbed to injuries sustained the previous day when he was stabbed by an inmate. Officer Sickles was attempting to break up a fight between two inmates in which one of the inmates had been stabbed by the other prisoner. Officer Sickles was in turn stabbed by the inmate who was stabbed. The inmate who started the incident was convicted of murdering the other inmate and Officer Sickles and sentenced to death.

Officer Sickles was a United States Army Air Corps veteran of WWII. He had been with the California Department of Corrections for 23 years and was survived by his wife and three children.