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Inmate Death Being Investigated as Apparent Suicide
Commissioner:
Gregory C. Dozier
Director of Public Affairs:
Joan Heath
Contact Name:
Gwendolyn Hogan
Contact Email:
Gwendolyn.Hogan@gdc.ga.gov
Date:
November 13, 2017
STATE OF GEORGIA
Inmate Death Being Investigated as Apparent Suicide
November 9, 2017
FORSYTH, Ga. – The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is investigating the death of an inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga.
On November 9 at 6:46 p.m., Correctional Officers found inmate Jamie Green (GDC #628897) unresponsive in his cell. Prison medical staff attempted to revive him and he was pronounced deceased at 8:38 p.m. by the Butts County Coroner. GDC is conducting an investigation into the death, as standard procedure.
Green was sentenced to death in 2015, in Bartow County, for Aggravated Child Molestation and Child Molestation. Further information and photographs can be found on the GDC website at http://www.gdc.ga.gov.
