Posted on 04/01/2007 6:43:09 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
BOSTON, Ma. - An inmate undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital hung himself in a shower stall -- the 10th suicide in the state prison system in the past 15 months, the Department of Correction said Saturday.
Jarred Aranda, 27, wrapped a shoelace around his neck and tied it to the handle of the shower-stall door Friday night, DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said. He was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m.
Aranda began serving a 1-year sentence for larceny and assault in January. He was transferred from the Bristol County House of Correction to Bridgewater on March 13 to begin a 30-day psychiatric evaluation, Wiffin said.
It was the second death this week in the prisons system.
Thomas Moriconi, 35, was found dead in his cell at MCI-Shirley early Wednesday morning. A preliminary investigation shows he died of a heroin overdose, Wiffin said. Moriconi was serving a 4-year sentence for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
Peace, brother. I was only trying to demonstrate my conservative bona fides. I guess I should have said I hope he goes to hell and burns for three eternities, plus a couple of millenia just for good measure.
Bridgewater has a prison facility. Inmates there are in DOC custody.
Hard for me to get worked up, but the majority of the suicides are petty ante criminals. The really nasty bastards live for the day when they can wreck mayhem once again.
15 available beds...
Wishing that people get raped in prison is sinful and also politically unhelpful.
Reread the post.
I was not advocating anyone getting raped, to the contrary I was telling the poster he was wrong in posting that comment.
Yes, I knew that. I was agreeing with you, from a Christian perspective. After the comment went up I realized that it could be misinterpreted, like you were the one making one of those Lockyer / Spitzer type comments we hear so much of these days, and I am sorry about that.
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