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Another Attempted Suicide in a New Bedford Jail

Just minutes before an inmate was found dead inside a New Bedford jail, correctional officers were busy preventing another inmate from dying by suicide. According to CBS 12 in Providence, 34 year old Adam Howe was found unresponsive in his cell by correctional officers at the Ash Street Jail earlier this month WHEN He was rushed to the hospital. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said the correctional officer conducting the spot checks walked by a woman’s cell, saw her attempting to harm herself and immediately intervened. Howe, who was suspected of killing his mother and setting her body on fire, dying of an apparent suicide 

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