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| Four deputies, nurse save inmate's life |
| By Boston Herald |
| Published: 02/24/2005 |
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Four Essex County sheriff's deputies and a nurse are being credited with saving the life of a county inmate after they used a defibrillator to bring him back from the dead Tuesday. "It's unbelievable. The guy was out. They put it on him and brought him back," said Sheriff Frank Cousins. "Before he left (for Massachusetts General Hospital) he was sitting up and talking to them." Cousins said officers at the Alternative Correctional Center in Lawrence found the 43-year-old inmate not breathing and without a pulse. Using a defibrillator, Deputy Superintendent Timothy Lattrell, correction officers Richard Smith, Jeffrey Gallo and Daniel Gendron, and nurse Margaret "Maggie" Leblanc, were able to revive him. Cousins said all of the county's jails are equipped with defibrillators but credited the correction officers and the nurse for applying their yearly training to save the inmate's life. |
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