Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
The death of an inmate at the Bucks County Correctional Facility is under investigation.
The inmate was found unresponsive late Wednesday afternoon at the Doylestown Township facility that serves several hundred inmates, county officials confirmed late Friday.
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“A corrections officer found a 46-year-old male prisoner unresponsive in his cell. Medical staff members were called immediately to the cell and began lifesaving efforts until an ambulance arrived,” a statement from the county said.
Medics were unable to revive the 46 year old, and the coroner’s office was called.
The man was being held in the facility on charges of burglary and other offenses. He had been brought into the prison earlier in December, officials said.
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County officials did not immediately release the man’s name.
The man’s next-of-kin were alerted of the death.
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Bucks County Department of Corrections investigators and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office are involved in the investigation, officials confirmed.
The correctional facility has been locked down recently due to a COVID-19 outbreak among staff and inmates.
While the death occurred Wednesday afternoon, no information on the incident was made public until a call to officials from this news organization on Friday afternoon.
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In the past five years, Bucks County has reported three inmate suicides, one homicide, and several medical-related deaths at the correctional facility, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics.
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