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The long history of Ariel Castro came to a conclusion tonight when state prison officials found the monster hanging in his cell.

With one last act of cowardice, Castro avoided the lifetime of rotting in his own personal hell granted to him by Judge Michael Russo earlier this summer.

He was pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m. after being transported from Pickaway Correctional Institution to the Ohio State University Medical Center. An investigation into the death will take place. Rounds were required every 30 minutes to keep tabs on his actions in the cell.

Ohio’s independent Legislative Service Commission determined that for fiscal year 2012, the average cost to incarcerate an inmate in a state prison was $24,870. So there’s that.

Without remorse, one can only hope that something brutish and terrible exists on the other side of Castro’s shameful limp off this mortal plane.

This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2013.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

10 replies on “Ariel Castro Found Dead in Cell”

  1. Hopefully he was given a few beat downs before hand. But really, good riddance and I hope those girls can find more peace than before now.

  5. You know what makes me sick? Almost $25,000 spent per year to house a criminal, yet an honest, hard-working or disabled person is lucky to get half of that (or less) per year!

  6. He is the first inmate I would have gladly paid to incarcerate. I don’t like that he was able to escape it so quickly.

  7. Castro was a very sick man. He has to finally answer to his maker and face the real consequences. Too bad he was such a coward and took the easy way out. Just doesn’t seem fair that he was able to take his own life. Hope the girls will be able to start living their lives better than before knowing that he can no longer harm them or anyone else ever again. What a comfort.

  8. Hopefully we can bury him outside the city limits, so we can be totally free from this piece of trash. Or, if we have to bury him here, install a port-a-potty right above his gravesite. I think that would be very fitting.

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