Corrections Sergeant Brent Miller

Brent Miller

Corrections Sergeant Brent Miller was stabbed to death at the Angola State Prison by inmates who were members of the Black Panthers.

The inmates had sharpened a lawnmower blade and used it to stab Sergeant Miller 38 times after attacking him in the prison's Pine 1 dormitory.

Two of the inmates, 28 and 30, were convicted of Sergeant Miller's murder and sentenced to life. One was released on October 1, 2013. Three days later, he was indicted a second time for Sergeant Miller's murder. He died the next day from liver cancer. The other inmate was released on February 16, 2016. Both inmates spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement, more than any other inmate in U.S. history.

Sergeant Miller's father was also a prison guard at the Angola State Prison, and he grew up on the prison grounds. He had worked as a guard at the prison for less than one year before being murdered. He was survived by his wife of two months, his parents, and two siblings.

He is buried at Pine Ridge Cemetery in Liverpool, Louisiana.

The Black Panther Party was a black nationalist and Marxist revolutionary political and militant organization active in the United States between 1966 and 1982. 

Members and former members of the group were responsible for the murders of over 20 law enforcement officers and the wounding of dozens more across the nation.

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