Rock County Inmate Patrick Kranda Dies in a WI Hospital
In Wisconsin news, Patrick Kranda, 61, was an inmate in Rock County Jail when a corrections officer doing a routine check called out to him. Mr. Kranda didn’t answer, and the officer discovered that he was unresponsive at about 8 a.m. on September 8, 2023. Mr. Kranda was soon transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced deceased. An autopsy and toxicology reports were ordered to determine the cause of death which is currently unknown.
Mr. Kranda was the third inmate incarcerated in Rock County Jail to die at that point in the year.
A 53-year-old Beloit, Wisconsin, man was discovered hanging in his cell on April 18. He later died, and it was reported as suicide.
Twenty-nine-year-old Nicole Lemke was discovered unresponsive and facedown in her cell early on February 2. As of September 2023, due to processing delays at the state crime labs, her cause of death was still unknown.
On the same night that Ms. Lemke died, another detainee was found to have smuggled drugs into the jail, including fentanyl. On February 15, 2023, 34-year-old Amanda Buri was charged with delivering or manufacturing fentanyl, delivering illegal substances to an inmate, and other drug-related charges. She posted bond and failed to appear for an August 3 court date, after which a warrant for her arrest was sent out to two states.
The address of Rock County Jail is 200 US-14, Janesville, WI 53545. The inmate capacity at the jail is 400.
A Likely Preventable Suicide Occurs in a North Carolina Jail
Twenty-nine-year-old Terry Demetrius Lee was incarcerated in Durham County Detention Center in North Carolina when, on March 14, 2013, he hung himself by the neck with a bed sheet secured to the bars on his cell window.
An N.C. Department of Health and Human Services inspector investigated the death and identified that the area behind bars in cell windows was a potential hanging hazard. Jail reports obtained by a publication in the area indicated that it had been concluded that Mr. Lee’s suicide was likely preventable.
Durham County Detention Center’s current address for official mail, including legal mail and packages, is P.O. Box 771, Durham, NC 27702. The jail’s bed capacity is 736
An Alleged Case of a Preventable Suicide in Marion County Jail
On October 8, 2008, David Thomas Dean was found hanging by his neck from a bed sheet in Marion County Jail, Florida. Lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced deceased the next day. Mr. Dean had been booked into the jail about three months earlier on July 29. The investigation into his death was assigned to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). According to the FDLE investigator who handled the case, an autopsy concluded that Mr. Dean took his own life.
Jeannie Dean, widow of the deceased, didn’t dispute her husband’s cause of death. She claimed that the jail had failed to protect him, saying that, while incarcerated, he had made repeated remarks about killing himself.
The FDLE investigator informed Ms. Dean that a psychiatrist had cleared her husband, and she claims that he also told her that he continued to report suicidal thoughts to everyone who would listen, including a corrections officer, who allegedly disregarded the comments.
Ms. Dean also claimed that other inmates taunted her husband and encouraged him, providing instructions on how to do it. The spokesperson for the Marion County Sheriff’s Department said that none of her accusations were known until after her husband’s tragic death.
The address of Marion County Jail is 3290 NW 10th St, Ocala, FL 34475. The total bed capacity of the jail is 1,924.
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