Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper
who held three women against their will for a decade, is dead after
hanging himself in his prison cell Tuesday night.
Castro,
53, was found about 9.20pm at Correctional Reception Center in Orient,
Ohio. He had served only one month of his prison term, which sent him
away for life, plus 1,000 years.
Castro was being housed alone in an isolation unit for his protection, prison officials said.
Prison
regulations dictate that guards had to check on him every 30 minutes.
Officials say he hanged himself during a break between inspections.
Castro made international headlines
when Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were freed from his
Cleveland house after ten years of captivity under unimaginable
conditions.
When prison guards found Castro hanging in his cell Tuesday, they immediately began trying to resuscitate him.
He
was taken to Ohio State University Medical Center, where he was
pronounced dead about an hour and a half later - shortly before 11pm.
It
costs nearly $25,000 a year to house a prison inmate in Ohio, on
average. The cost to house Castro, who was kept in high security, would
likely have been much higher.
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