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| Inmate found dead in apparent suicide, Connecticut DOC says |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 05/18/2005 |
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A 23-year-old inmate at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution was found hanged in his cell on Tuesday, a state official said. The Department of Correction is investigating what it calls the apparent suicide of Adnan Saeed of Meriden. A bed sheet was tied around his neck and the other end secured to the upper bunk, said Brian Garnett, a spokesman for the Department of Correction. Despite lifesaving measures by prison staff, Saeed was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. He most recently entered the prison system on April 15 on a six-year sentence for violating probation. Garnett said records do not show why probation was imposed. Saeed was the sole inmate in the cell at the time of his hanging. The exact manner and cause of death will be determined by the chief medical examiner's office, state police and the Correction Department's security division. The suicide was the fourth in Connecticut prisons this year, Garnett said. The death came four days after the state executed serial killer Michael Ross. The lawyer for Ross' father, who tried to stop the lethal injection, unsuccessfully attempted to convince judges that the execution would cause a wave of suicide attempts by inmates. Tuesday's suicide was the first since the execution, which was New England's first in 45 years. |
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