Inmate found hanging dead
A 30-YEAR-OLD inmate allegedly committed suicide at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City.
Ricky Salidega, of Liloan town, northern Cebu, was found hanging by the neck in an isolation cell around 2 p.m. last Sunday, said acting jail warden Algier Commendador.
Commendador said a blanket was tied around the inmate’s neck with the other end tied to the metal railing of the nine-foot-high cell.
The warden denied speculation that Salidega died of hazing by fellow inmates inside the facility.
Salidega was rushed to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center where attending physicians declared him dead.
Commendador said Salidega was placed in an isolation cell after he made fun of some visitors of co-inmates.
Salidega, who was detained on December 2010 for robbery charges, had been complaining of family problems.
Commendador said Salidega was not visited by his relatives since he was detained.
Salidega’s father is detained at Muntinlupa jail while his brother is also detained at the Cebu City Jail.
Relatives claimed the man’s body last Monday afternoon./CORRESPONDENT CARMEL LOISE MATUS
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