For the third time this year, the Bucks County Correctional Facility has reported the death of an inmate.
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The death happened Sunday at the jail in Doylestown Township.
County officials said in a statement that the man in his late 30s was pronounced dead at the facility by medical personnel.
The Bucks County Detectives and the Bucks County Department of Corrections investigators are probing the man’s death.
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Sunday’s death is the third this year at the facility.
The first death of 2022 at the jail happened in March. Inmate Edwin Dunfee, 46, of Philadelphia, died at the facility by suicide.
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Last month, Christopher Robert, 25, of New Hope, killed himself by purposely choking on food at the jail, the coroner said.
Over the past seven years, Bucks County has reported five inmate suicides, one homicide, and several medical-related deaths at the correctional facility, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics and this news organization’s tally.
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