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A 25-year-old woman died by suicide at the Cumberland County Jail in New Jersey two days after arriving there, according to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation. The DOJ said she told medical staff at intake about her heroin use and was not given the medication treatment she had been receiving for her addiction. Federal investigators wrote that the jail's failures in mental health care likely contributed to her death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). The U.S. Department of Justice investigation says jail staff did not give her the addiction medication she had been receiving, despite her disclosure of heroin use at intake, and that the jail's mental health care failures likely contributed to her suicide.
Reported by: U.S. Department of Justice investigation (outside investigators).