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Officials combat mental health issues among inmates
By newarkadvocate.com- Hannah Sparling
Published: 08/04/2014

NEWARK – It was about 12:30 a.m. May 31 when a corrections officer at the Licking County Justice Center saw an inmate heading toward the shower area with her sheets.

The inmate was on suicide watch, and the officer intercepted her and asked what she was doing, according to an incident report. The inmate said she was using the sheets to clean up, but the officer instructed her to go back to bed. The inmate complied.

A while later, shortly before 2 a.m., the officer saw the inmate sit up in bed again. This time, the inmate grabbed her sheet, tied it around her neck and started running toward the stairs. The officer jumped up and ran the same direction, colliding with the inmate as she jumped.

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