JACKSON - The mother of an inmate who was fatally stabbed inside Dixon Correctional Institute is suing the warden, alleging his negligence for her son's death.

Joyce Kelly, mother of Cornelius Kelly, filed suit against Warden E. Dustin Bickham for violating her son's right to due process and to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

According to the lawsuit, Cornelius Kelly was at the institute serving time for various burglary-related charges when Joseph Constance, Terrell Holmes, Arsenio Wells, and Taylor Williams allegedly instigated an altercation with Cornelius Kelly.

The lawsuit says that the next day, two of the individuals led Cornelius Kelly into the prison yard, where he was stabbed three time

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