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ANOTHER Ohio prisoner commits suicide just days after two guards were put on leave after Ariel Castro killed himself in his cell

By Marie-louise Olson

Published: 11:02 EDT, 12 September 2013 | Updated: 12:27 EDT, 12 September 2013 Dead: James Lee Blackburn, 31, was found hanging in his prison cell on Tuesday morning

Ohio says a prison inmate has committed suicide, the third case of a prisoner killing himself in two months in the state.

The State Highway Patrol says the inmate, James Lee Blackburn, 31, of Trumbull County, was found hanging in his cell at Lebanon Correctional Institution early Tuesday by his cell mate.

The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction identified the inmate on Wednesday.

Blackburn entered prison in 2006 and was serving a 21-year sentence for raping a seven-year-old child on three separate occasions.

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro committed suicide last week as he began a life sentence for imprisoning three women in his home for a decade and repeatedly beating and raping them.

Castro was serving a life sentence plus 1,000 years for abducting, raping, and holding hostage Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.

The 53-year-old Castro hanged himself with a bed sheet on September 3.

He was being housed alone in an isolation unit for his protection, where he would be checked every 30 minutes.

Prison officials said he hanged himself with a sheet during a break between inspections. Prison: The Lebanon Correctional Institution where Blackburn was serving time before he killed himself Kidnapper: Ariel Castro, 53, committed suicide in an Ohio prison by hanging himself in his sheets last week Two Ohio suicides: Billy Slagle (left) and Ariel Castro (right) both killed themselves in prison

The two guards Caleb Ackley, 26, and 27-year-old Ryan Murphy, were on duty in the Orient, Ohio prison unit, where Castro hanged himself.

The men are currently on paid administrative leave until internal investigations by the department and a criminal investigation by the state highway patrol are completed.

Neither have any previous disciplinary notes in their files.

Death row inmate Billy Slagle killed himself in August just a few days before his scheduled execution.

Slagle, 44, had been convicted of murdering his 40-year-old neighbor Mari Anne Pope in her Clinton Avenue home, during a burglary.

He stabbed Pope 17 times with a pair of scissors as two children she was babysitting watched.



Another Ohio prisoner commits suicide just days after Ariel Castro was found dead in his prison cell





