14-year-old found hanged at juvenile prison
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 8:24 am
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, March 19, 2009
CROCKETT - Authorities say a 14-year-old inmate at the Texas Youth Commission’s juvenile prison in Crockett hanged himself.
Houston County Judge Lonnie Hunt said the boy hanged himself with his underwear. An officer found the teen early Monday after someone reported that paper covered the window of the door to the teen’s room, Hunt said.
“We will conduct a comprehensive investigation to determine how this young man was able to take his life while in our custody,” Youth Commission Executive Commissioner Cherie Townsend said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”
Commission spokesman Jim Hurley declined to say how long the teen had been at the Crockett State School, which has 265 beds, or what crime he had committed. Before the death this week, the most recent juvenile inmate suicide was in 2006, when Robert Schulze, 19, who had complained that he felt unsafe, hanged himself in his cell at a lockup in Bronte.
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