By Corrections1 Staff
NYE COUNTY, Nev. — Recently released video shows a Nevada sheriff’s deputy catching a suicidal inmate who threw himself off the second floor of a jail, saving his life.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that on Dec. 5, an unidentified inmate threatened to kill himself by jumping from a second-story railing at the Nye County Detention Center. When one deputy attempted to stop the inmate, she began wrestling with him before he pushed his way over the railing.
Deputy Joshua Armendariz was able to catch the inmate as he fell to the ground.
The deputy and the inmate were taken to a hospital and released.
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