Trumbull corrections officers revive inmate who tried to commit suicide

Staff report

WARREN

Corrections officers at the Trumbull County Jail revived a man who tried to hang himself in a jail restroom Saturday afternoon.

The inmate, who has not been identified, had been working with other inmates in the jail’s kitchen at 2:30 p.m. and went to use the restroom, Sheriff Thomas Altiere said.

After he was gone several minutes, inmates checked to see why he had not come back and found him hanging from a garbage bag attached to a ceiling grate.

Several corrections officers attended to him, giving him CPR and using an automated external defibrillator, which brought back a pulse and caused him to start breathing again, the sheriff said.

The inmate was taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital and then to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, but he is now back at the jail on suicide watch.

“We didn’t think he was going to make it at first, but he’s gotten better and better, and he’s fine now,” Altiere said.

“They did a phenomenal job,” the sheriff said of the corrections officers who saved the inmate.