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The district attorney claimed that Prentiss, while incarcerated on the assault charge, had attempted to hire another inmate to kill three people, including her father and actor-director Richard Benjamin, her brother-in-law. On July 23, 1997, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison.
Oct 24, 2018 · On July 23, 1997, Ann was sentenced to 19 years in prison of which she served 12. Ann Elizabeth Ragusa Prentiss died on January 12, 2010 while still an inmate at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California.
Jan 12, 2010 · She was convicted of making terrorist threats, assault with a firearm, battery, and solicitation to murder her brother-in-law (actor Richard Benjamin) and her father. She was sentenced to 19 years in jail for the crimes. She died in prison at age 70.
Jan 12, 2010 · On July 23, 1997, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison. Prentiss died on January 12, 2010, while serving her prison sentence.
Sadly, she spent the final years of her life in prison after being convicted by a California court in June 1997 of assaulting her 86-year-old father at his home and later trying to hire a convict to kill her father, her brother-in-law Richard Benjamin and her nephew Ross Benjamin.
- November 27, 1939
- January 12, 2010
Jan 12, 2010 · She died in prison, January 12, 2010, in Chowchilla, California, having served 13 years of a 19 year prison sentence (expected release date 2016) for assaulting her father, and threats against three other members of her family.
On July 23, 1997, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison. Prentiss died on January 12, 2010, while serving her prison sentence.
