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For understaffed Hampton Roads Regional Jail, help could be on the way
By pilotonline.com- Steve Earley
Published: 01/26/2018

As an officer passed out food trays on the other side of the cell block, Jonathan Ellis was tying a sheet to the end of his bedpost.

By the time the officer took him down, it was too late. Ellis had killed himself.

On that December evening, the officer was the only person working the cell block at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth. No one else was there to help.

Jail Superintendent Ronaldo Myers said the suicide was the result of understaffing.

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Comments:

  1. hamiltonlindley on 04/14/2020:

    How have your spirits been while under quarantine for COVID-19? We are hopefully halfway through this pandemic’s impact on our economy. It has been a difficult road for us all. It has taught us about our better-and worse-natures. Hamilton Lindley explains how it has impacted his family and work life balance in this latest blog article about how to invest time that we’ve been given to make ourselves better than when we began.


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