Inmate Hangs Herself In Bakersfield Cell

February 15, 2011 10:30 AM

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BAKERSFIELD (AP) — Kern County Sheriff’s officials say an inmate who died after being found unresponsive in her jail cell hanged herself.

The sheriff’s office released the results on Tuesday of an autopsy on 28-year-old Lorena Diaz of Bakersfield. Diaz was found unresponsive on Saturday night in her cell at the Kern County Sheriff’s Office’s Central Receiving Facility in Bakersfield.

She was taken to Mercy Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Diaz’s family tells KGET-TV she had a history of mental health problems and had been in and out of jail. They questioned why she was not on a suicide watch.

But Sheriff’s Lt. Tyson Davis says mental health professionals who evaluated Diaz said she was not a danger to herself.

Inmate Hangs Herself In Bakersfield Cell

millie

I feel for anyone with mental health problems. They are so much in need of help for their mental health. We encounter it on the highways and byways in this country. The way drivers speed (and they are in the majority TOO!), it cannot be anything else but mental illness. You simply do not speed like they do if nothing is wrong with you mentally…in the meantime….poor soul in jail with mental health problems, not much else can be worse.

David

If you don’t drive so slow, then everyone else wouldn’t be speeding, If people like you drove like you knew what you were doing there would be less accidents. SPEED UP.