The Attorney General’s Office is investigating the death of an inmate that occurred Friday at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, according to a press release issued by the office Saturday.
Essex County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Tom Fennelly and Essex County spokeswoman Lauren T. Agnew confirmed there was a death at the jail in Newark, but declined to provide addition information Friday, citing the ongoing investigation.
A union official for supervising officers at the jail told NJ Advance Media the inmate was stabbed on Thursday afternoon and then placed in a detention call before found he was dead in the cell on Friday.
The inmate was taken to University Hospital in Newark Friday morning, where he was pronounced deceased at 9:03 a.m., according to the AG’s office.
The identity of the male inmate is not being released, the AG’s office said.
According to the press release, the investigation follows a state directive requiring “the Attorney General’s Office to conduct the investigation of any death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody.”
The AG’s Office also will investigate the conduct of correctional officers and other jail staff, while the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office investigates the conduct of any other parties that may be responsible, according to the release.
The inmate’s death comes a little more than two month after another inmate, who transferred from Union County, was brutally beaten with a microwave and stomped by seven other inmates. Charges have been filed against all seven men seen on video attacking Jashawn Boyd, who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Boyd’s attorney said corrections officers didn’t intervene in the attack and that the 22-year-old was improperly housed in a gang unit.
NJ Advance Media staff writer Jeff Goldman contributed to this report.
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Matthew Stanmyre may be reached at mstanmyre@njadvancemedia.com
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