An inmate died at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic Sunday, apparently after having a seizure, a sheriff’s deputy said.
Inmates at the facility, at 29340 The Old Road, alerted deputies about 7:05 a.m. that the man was having a seizure in their dormitory, said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
Medical personnel responded, but while the inmate was being taken to the jail infirmary, he became unresponsive, Saldana said.
Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics were summoned, but were unable to revive the man and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Saldana.
His cause of death will be investigated by the coroner’s office, she said.
The man’s name was withheld pending notification of his next of kin.
It was the second inmate death in three days in Los Angeles County.
Gordon Rowell, a 33-year-old inmate serving a manslaughter sentence at California State Prison-Los Angeles County in Lancaster, died under suspicious circumstances on Friday, according to the sheriff’s department.
His cause of death is under investigation by the coroner’s office and sheriff’s homicide detectives, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
–City News Service