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A Bristol Township man has been identified as the person who died at the Bucks County Correctional Facility last Monday.
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Octavius Davis, 35, of Bristol Township’s Croydon section, was found in the facility unresponsive. He was pronounced dead, officials said.
Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said the cause of death remains under investigation and toxicology samples have been sent out.
The Bucks County Detectives and Bucks County Department of Corrections Investigations Unit are probing Davis’ death, according to Bucks County Department of Communications Deputy Director Jame O’Malley and Bucks County District Attorney’s Office Director of Communications Manuel Gamiz Jr.
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Davis, according to court records, had previously faced misdemeanor drug-related offenses in recent years. He was sentenced to probation last year and recently was called up for a probation/parole violation hearing.
The Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown Township reported four inmate deaths in 2022. Last week’s death is the first of 2023.
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The first death of 2022 at the correctional facility happened in March. Inmate Edwin Dunfee, 46, of Philadelphia, died at the facility by suicide.
Christopher Robert, 25, of New Hope, killed himself in June 2022 by purposely choking on food at the jail, the coroner said.
In early July 2022, Floyd Harper, 37, of Tullytown Borough, died by suicide while jailed on charges filed by Amtrak police.
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Charles Hall, 50, died in July 2022 from a pulmonary thromboemboli due to deep vein thrombosis. His cause of death was ruled natural.
In the seven years prior to this month, Bucks County has reported six 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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