BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Ricardo Mathews, son of legendary funk singer Rick James, was sentenced Wednesday for assaulting a fellow inmate in prison.
Mathews was serving time in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, when the assault happened on Nov. 29, 2022.
On that day, Mathews had left his cell and crouched down in a fighting stance next to another inmate’s cell while holding a self-made slingshot — a small mass of metal or stone fixed on a flexible handle or strap, the District Attorney’s Office said…