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Western MA: Man sentenced to Hampden County Jail for Drug Possession Hangs Himself

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Westfield man hangs self in jail Thursday, March 06, 2008 By GEORGE GRAHAM Springfield Republican LUDLOW - A 41-year-old Westfield man hanged himself on Tuesday at the Hampden County Correctional Center. Kevin J. Small, of Westfield, hanged himself with a bed sheet that he had tied to the top bunk in his cell, said Richard J. McCarthy, spokesman for the Hampden County Sheriff's Department. A corrections officer discovered Small hanging from the bunk at 5:35 p.m. and immediately cut him down, McCarthy said. Facility medical personnel worked to revive him, but to no avail, McCarthy said. Outside paramedics joined the effort at about 5:50 and Small was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield at about 6:35 p.m., McCarthy said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).