Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
UPDATED: 10:01 a.m., Wednesday:
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County officials released the following additional information on the death:
“The inmate, a male in his late 40s, was found unresponsive Tuesday evening in his cell and lifesaving measures were immediately started. Medical personnel pronounced the man dead at the jail.”
Original Post:
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The death of an inmate from the Bucks County Correctional Facility was under investigation Wednesday morning.
The Bucks County Detectives and corrections department staff were probing the Tuesday evening incident that left the inmate from the county’s Doylestown Township facility dead.
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James O’Malley, a spokesperson for the county, confirmed the death but was unable to release further information.
At 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, Doylestown Township firefighters and medics from the Warrington Community Ambulance and Central Bucks Emergency Medical Services were dispatched to the correctional facility for a cardiac arrest, according to dispatch logs. It was unclear if the call was related to the death.
Over the past seven years, Bucks County has reported four inmate suicides, one homicide, and several medical-related deaths at the correctional facility, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics. Last September, an inmate died by suicide at the facility, which has not yet been recorded in the state statistics.
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