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| Inmate's death under investigation |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 03/03/2004 |
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Illinois Department of Corrections officials on Tuesday were investigating the possible strangulation of an Arlington Heights man over the weekend in his cell at the Menard Correctional Center. Joshua Daczewitz, 22, was found dead about 5:10 a.m. Saturday in the cell he shared with another inmate, according to Sergio Molina, spokesman for the Department of Corrections. Randolph County Deputy Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said Tuesday that Daczewitz died as a result of foul play, but would not release any specific information. "[Daczewitz] was in a cell with a cellmate, and we think there was foul play," Dudenbostel said. "There was not an actual weapon like a knife or gun." Daczewitz's lawyer, James Reilley, said the family was told Daczewitz had been strangled and his body found in his bunk. Daczewitz was serving a 7-year term for residential arson and robbery. He had recently been transferred from the minimum-security Vienna Correctional Center to a segregation unit in maximum-security Menard because of an unspecified rule violation, Molina said. "A Corrections Department team was called in to investigate Daczewitz's death, said Molina, who would not release other details. It was the second inmate death in three months at Menard. Charles Platcher, 31, of McHenry County, died at the prison Dec. 25. He was serving a 40-year sentence for the fatal stabbing of his mother in 2001. The cause of Platcher's death is still under investigation, officials said. |
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