"On April 14, Rocha's body was discovered hanging in her 10-by-15-foot cell, in the psych ward at CIW, the noose around her neck fashioned from a bedsheet and tied around a heating vent. There was no suicide note. Rocha's parole hearing had been scheduled for the next day."
Why Are So Many Inmates Attempting Suicide at the California Institution for Women? (2016)
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