HACKENSACK, N.J., Feb. 28— A 20-year-old murder suspect found dead in his cell bunk this week in the Bergen County Jail, his shoes laces knotted around his neck, was formally classified today as a suicide, the authorities said. It was the fourth death of a county inmate attributed to suicide since April. The Bergen County Prosecutor, John J. Fahy, said an autopsy found that the man, Robert Irving, of Passaic, died early Wednesday of strangulation, by tying the laces of his sneakers together and then tying them tightly around his neck. After disclosing the finding, Mr. Fahy said his office was opening a review of the effectiveness of suicide screening procedures employed by the Bergen County Sheriff's department, which runs the county's aging, fortress-like main jail and a larger jail annex about a half mile away. "I want to see if the proper procedures are being employed," Mr. Fahy said. Checked an Hour Earlier In the earlier suicides, one man, Patrick Carley, strangled himself by knotting his pajamas around his neck while in bed at the prison wing of the Bergen Pines County Hospital.
Another, John Russell, 31, strangled himself with shoelaces in a shower at the jail annex, Mr. Fahy said. The fourth man, Christian Slane, 20, hanged himself with a sheet tied to a bar above his cell door in the main jail, he said. The suicide finding in Mr. Irving's death was made by Bergen County's First Assistant Medical Examiner, Dr. John Apovian. No suicide notes were found in Mr. Irving's cell. Besides the sneaker laces around his neck, a sock was stuffed into Mr. Irving's mouth, authorities said. They said his body was found, with a blanket pulled up over his head, about 7 A.M. Wednesday by a sheriff's guard who took a breakfast tray to Mr. Irving's cell. An hour earlier, a guard making rounds said he was asleep. "He tied the laces so tight that the air flow was blocked off," Mr. Fahy said. "A man of normal strength could do this." The four deaths make Bergen's jail complex one of the most suicide-plagued penal jails in the metropolitan area. County corrections officials in Hudson, Essex, Middlesex, Mercer and Passaic reported today they had no inmate suicides in their jails in 1990 or 1991.
Union County had one. In the 15 state-run prisons in New Jersey, which now house about 23,000 prisoners, there were 2 inmate suicides in 1990 and 1 last year. In New York City's 17 jails, there were 5 inmate suicides in 1990, when the daily inmate population averaged 19,643, and 3 last year, when the population averaged 20,459, according to the New York City Department of Correction. In New York State's 46 prisons, there was 1 inmate suicide in 1990 and 4 in 1991. The inmate population was 54,895 at the end of 1990 and 57,821 at the end of 1991, the New York State Department of Correctional Services said. Bergen's 2 jails have held between 900 and 1,000 inmates in recent months, about 90 percent of them in the annex. The jail and the annex are designed to hold 423. The overcrowding, however, is no more severe than that in other county jails. A Bergen County Undersheriff, Mary Ellen Bolton, declined to speculate today on reasons for the suicides. She said the county sheriff, Jack Terhune, was on vacation and unavailable for comment.
Nancy Feldman, director of New Jersey's Office of Inmate Advocacy, today called the jail's intake-screening policy "superficial." The screening was designed to detect the suicide-prone and assign them to a psychiatric cell block as soon as inmates and suspects are brought to the jail, Ms. Feldman said. "The jail isn't doing more evaluation until later in the process," she said. Ms. Feldman's office filed a class-action suit in 1988 charging that living conditions in the Bergen Jail were unconstitutional, because of overcrowding and sanitation, plumbing and electrical problems. The suit is pending. Undersheriff Bolton said Mr. Irving was given a psychological and physical examination by a jail nurse when he arrived at the jail about 10 P.M. Tuesday. He had been arrested about 6:30 P.M. Tuesday and accused of killing his girlfriend's grandmother, Ann LiGregni, 68, of Lodi, N.J. Undersheriff Bolton said she did not know how much time the nurse spent examining Mr. Irving.
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