The Norfolk County District Attorney’s office has identified the three men who recently died within a one-month span while incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk.
Their identities, released Thursday, are:
- Christopher Stiles, age 36, who died on Sept. 20
- Robert McNickles, age 73, who died on Sept. 27
- John Rodriguez, age 65, who died on Oct. 20
The three deaths at MCI-Norfolk — the state’s largest medium-security prison housing men serving criminal sentences — are in addition to two others that also occurred over the last month or so at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, a maximum-security prison.
Joseph Eaton, 36, was identified Wednesday by the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office as the man who died at Souza-Baranowski on Oct. 28. Eaton, originally from Maine, was serving a life sentence for the 2023 killings of his parents and their two friends in Bowdoin, Maine, followed by a shooting spree on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth…