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| CT Officials Try to Prevent Suicide |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/03/2005 |
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Two inmate suicides in nine days have prompted the state's top prisons official to order a summit on preventing prisoners from killing themselves. Connecticut Correction Department Commissioner Theresa C. Lantz on Thursday set the meeting for Oct. 14. Correction officials on Thursday identified an inmate they say killed himself on Wednesday at the New Haven Correctional Center by hanging himself with his own pants while his cellmate slept. The prisoner, Angel Otero, 34, of Waterbury, was awaiting trial on a charge of first-degree arson. Correction officials did not provide further details of his death, saying it was still under investigation by prison officials and state police. Otero's death was the seventh suicide in the state prison system this year. There were nine suicides last year, said Brian Garnett, a Correction Department spokesman. On Sept. 19, Jay Stevens, 46, hanged himself at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. He was awaiting trial for allegedly killing his girlfriend with a hammer. His death also remains under investigation. |
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