WINONA, Minn. – The violence to which police were called was in their own jail. An inmate, Melvin Earl Kimp, thought that another inmate was playing the cell block television too loud so he punched him, deputies and. The blow, they said, was with an open fist and left a bruise. Kimp, age 34, was taken back to his cell and charged with felony assault. He had been in jail since February 2 on a domestic assault charge. The battered inmate didn’t require hospitalization.
Kimp. An extended jail term now expected.