For the third time this year, the Bucks County Correctional Facility has reported the death of an inmate.
The death happened Sunday at the jail in Doylestown Township.
County officials said in a statement that the man in his late 30s was pronounced dead at the facility by medical personnel. A report by Jo Ciavaglia at the Courier Times states a 37-year-old man from Tullytown was found dead in his cell, and an autopsy later revealed that he had committed suicide.
Ciavaglia’s report adds the man was being held since May 20 on 10% of $400,000 cash bail on felony charges of receiving stolen property, theft of secondary metal, conspiracy and related offenses, stemming from an April incident involving Amtrak property in Bristol Township. The report also indicates the man was involved in a police standoff at a Tullytown home in October 2021, in which the man was described as suicidal.
Sunday’s death is the third this year at the facility.
The first death of 2022 at the jail happened in March. Inmate Edwin Dunfee, 46, of Philadelphia, died at the facility by suicide.
Last month, Christopher Robert, 25, of New Hope, killed himself by purposely choking on food at the jail, the coroner said.
Over the past seven years, Bucks County has reported five inmate suicides, one homicide, and several medical-related deaths at the correctional facility, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics and this news organization’s tally.
North Penn Now Editor Keith Heffintrayer contributed to this report.
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