By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The state Department of Corrections is investigating the death of a former Morton man, an inmate found unresponsive yesterday morning at the Monroe Correctional Complex.
Thirty-year-old Michael D Bryant was discovered about 7 a.m. unconscious and not breathing, and prison staff began providing lifesaving measures, including a call to 911, according to authorities. Local paramedics pronounced him dead at 7:29 am., DOC spokesperson Jeremy Barclay stated.
Bryant was being held in Monroe’s Special Offender Unit, a part of the facility opened in 1981 to treat and house seriously mentally ill offenders.
He was convicted in Lewis County Superior Court in early 2008 after repeatedly stabbing a woman he’d met at Cascade Mental Health in Chehalis, for no apparent reason. Bryant was about halfway through his 18-year-sentence.
Monroe’s Special Offender Unit is the same place where last year, a Lewis County man at the beginning of a five-year sentence died after an assault for which a fellow inmate was investigated. Gordon C. Powell Jr., 45, passed away May 18, 2015.
DOC spokesperson Barclay wrote in a news release yesterday that initial response indicates Bryant’s death was a result of an apparent suicide and a full review will be completed of the circumstances/incident.
DOC officials contacted local law enforcement and the county coroner’s office. Monroe Correctional Complex’s Intelligence and Investigations unit, along with local law enforcement, are investigating the matter, according to Barclay.
The prison located in Monroe, in Snohomish County, houses approximately 2,400 male inmates.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
You’re all inbred anyways. Guess I was right!
Red neck comes from the coal miners rebellion in the 1800’s.
They wore red bandanas to id themselfs
Redneck: A derogatory term used by slave-masters to identify white slaves, which later became just one step higher than a black slave.
Know your history.
Let’s see how I stack up:)
Redneck: A white person
(Yep)
who lives in a small town or in the country
(Yep)
especially in the southern U.S.,
(No)
who typically has a working-class job,
(Retired)
and who is seen by others as being uneducated
(Community College)
and having opinions and attitudes that are offensive
(Yep)
I guess that I’m at least half a Redneck but am somehow amazingly content with my life.
How about you poster? I detect a lot of anger boiling over. Are you the road rager who I didn’t exit Highway 12 fast enough for last year? Please don’t beat your wife/girlfriend/dog/children.
If you are wasting your time reading this website… quit being such a nosy skank.