INDIAN SPRINGS (KTNV) — The parents of Jacob Herman, an inmate killed at High Desert State Prison in July, are preparing to sue the Nevada Department of Corrections for their son's death.

35-year-old Jacob Herman was killed on July 16, 2025, just five days away from his scheduled released. According to the family's lawyers, Herman was supposed to be in protective custody but was instead placed in the prison's most violent wing, cell block 4C.

Attorneys say Herman was placed in a cell with a mentally ill man known as "King" who was serving a life sentence without parole for committing a "savage sex assault of a woman and her 10-year-old child, then bludgeoning them with a hammer."

King was convicted of multiple homicides, robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault. Inmates allegedly told a

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