An inmate has died at Rimutaka Prison after being found collapsed in his unit on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n
Rimutaka Prison general manager Dennis Goodin said staff responded “quickly and professionally”, providing first AID, performing CPR and calling an ambulance. <\/p>\n
“Ambulance staff attended and continued to provide CPR, but were unfortunately unable to revive him,” Goodin said. <\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the prisoner\u2019s family and those close to him during this difficult time.” <\/p>\n
Other prisoners in the unit would be provided with support, Goodin said, including access to Chaplains and cultural support where requested.<\/p>\n
The independent Corrections Inspectorate would carry out an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death. <\/p>\n
Police had also been informed of the incident and the man’s next of kin had been notified. <\/p>\n
The death would be referred to the coroner. <\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including new threats from Donald Trump, and excitement builds around the All Whites\u2019 World Cup campaign. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inmate has died at Rimutaka Prison after being found collapsed in his unit on Wednesday morning. Rimutaka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-471591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}