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MA: Another suicide at Souza-Baranowski

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmate found dead in Shirley prison cell Suicide believed to be the cause By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | January 27, 2009 A state prison inmate was found dead in his cell yesterday morning in an apparent suicide. The death came despite the man's known history of mental illness and at least one past suicide attempt, according to a state official and lawyers involved in his case. It was the second such death in a state prison facility in less than a month. Donovan Walker, a 42-year-old who was originally from Haverhill and was serving a life sentence for murder, was found at 8:44 a.m. in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Shirley. He was found hanging by a T-shirt and was pronounced dead two hours later at Leominster Hospital, said Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).