Gwinnett County Detention Center

Gwinnett County Detention Center (GCDC)

Suicides

July 3, 1993: The first inmate to commit suicide since the center opened in 1991, 30-year-old John Marlow used his bedsheets tied around his bed frame to kill himself. He had been classified as minimum security risk, and had no prior history of suicidal or depressive symptoms, although he was awaiting trial later that day.

June 5, 1998: Stockbridge native Scott Greeson, 26, tied a bedsheet around his neck and hanged himself from his cell just before 10 p.m. Because the bunk was not high enough to let Greeson hang above the floor, he simply leaned forward until he passed out and suffocated himself. Officials had consistently reported that he had been a model prisoner. Officials speculated that his suicide may have been preceded by a heated argument with his girlfriend, with whom he had recently met during visiting hours. Greeson's charges consisted of stealing two VCRS, a generator, and some toiletries; he was also facing an outstanding warrant in Henry County.

News

May 2 2006

20 year-old Gwinnett County Detention Center inmate Zachary Harris, who had been admitted 3 days before, was stricken dead with a meningitis bacterium, forcing 175 of the Detention Center's inmates to be administered immediate injections of antibiotic Rifampin.

In October of 2005, another inmate at the Detention Center, 43 year-old Harriet Washington, also died from contracting a disease, which was classed as myeloid leukemia. Days before her death, she had complained of symptoms but was ignored by Prison Health Services staff, resulting in the firing of at least 4 health staff employees. (The Atlanta Journal, 2 May 2006)

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