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Briefs

Inmate treated after slitting his wrist

By Times Staff Writer
Published January 14, 2006

LECANTO - An inmate at the Citrus County jail was transported to the Citrus Memorial Health System on Friday morning after he slit his wrist, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office.

Jail spokeswoman Julia Swart declined to release the inmate's name Friday afternoon, but she said the inmate was a man in his late 30s who had been in the facility for a week. She said she did not know whether he was still at the hospital. The incident occurred when a response team was conducting a search of the man's unit. A unit houses about 100 people. "It was not a suicide attempt," she said. "It was an attempt to get our attention." She declined to say how the man cut his wrist, but she did say he had not been under a suicide watch and had given no indication he might be suicidal. The Sheriff's Office received a call about the incident at 10:48 a.m., sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Tierney said. She said she had no further information about the incident.

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