Inmate death at Bucks County Prison under investigation

Christopher Dornblaser, Bucks County Courier Times
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Bucks County Correctional Center

An inmate died at Bucks County Prison Tuesday, according to the county.

The county said in a news release that the inmate, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead by medical personnel at the jail.

County detectives and the Department of Corrections investigations unit are investigating the death.

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No additional information on the death was available Wednesday morning.

Since 2015, there have been at least 16 other deaths at Bucks County Prison.

In March, a 46-year-old Philadelphia man died by suicide in the prison. Six months earlier, in September, a 69-year-old New Jersey man also died by suicide in the prison.

This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Inmate death under investigation at Bucks County Prison