The state said Friday a prison inmate committed suicide earlier in the week, the fourth case of an Ohio prisoner killing himself in three months and the ninth inmate suicide this year.
The report comes as outside consultants brought in by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction review inmate suicides and the agency's anti-prevention policies. Their report is due at the end of next month. The consultants were brought in following high-profile inmate deaths — including Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro.
Kimball Kenaga, 47, was found Wednesday in a closet with a vacuum cord around his neck attached to a fire sprinkler in the ceiling at Ross Correctional Institution, according to an initial prison incident report.
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