Suicide triggers jailers suspension

Filed by Brad Dicken | The Chronicle-Telegram January 7th, 2008 in Top Stories.
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A Grafton Correctional Institution corrections officer has been suspended in the wake of an inmate’s suicide.

Officer Jorge Ruiz was placed on administrative leave Friday after questions surrounding the Dec. 30 hanging death of inmate Earl Elswick reached the prison’s warden, said Andrea Dean, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

County Coroner Paul Matus said Elswick hanged him in his cell, where he was kept alone, with a bedsheet. Elswick was not under suicide watch at the time, he said.

Dean declined to provide specifics about what led to Ruiz’s suspension.

Elswick has been in the prison systen since 1993 on a rape charge out of Cuyahoga County.

 


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