The inmate who died in the Bucks County Correctional Facility last week was from the Levittown area.
Charles Hall, 50, was taken from his cell inside the Doylestown Township facility to a nearby hospital where he died last Thursday morning, according to authorities.
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The coroner’s office released Hall’s name but not his hometown. However, court records appeared to show that Hall had recent addresses in Levittown and Bristol. He was sentenced earlier this month for a drug-related offense.
Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said Hall died from a pulmonary thromboemboli due to deep vein thrombosis. His cause of death was ruled natural.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes the ailment as one that happens when a piece of a clot breaks off and travels to the lungs, which could potentially cause death.
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Hall’s death marks the fourth this year and second this month.
The first death at the correctional facility happened in March. Inmate Edwin Dunfee, 46, of Philadelphia, died at the facility by suicide.
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Christopher Robert, 25, of New Hope, killed himself in June by purposely choking on food at the jail, the coroner said.
Earlier this month, Floyd Harper, 37, of Tullytown Borough, died by suicide while jailed on charges filed by Amtrak police.
Bucks County has reported six inmate suicides, one homicide, and several medical-related deaths at the correctional facility over the past seven years, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics and this news organization’s tally.
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