Officials say foul play is not suspected. Alexander's death was the fifth inmate death since the beginning of 2014. Click here to read a statement released Wednesday by Sheriff Ian Parkinson about the deaths and their resulting investigations.
Adjudication â The process for determining if allegations brought forth in the juvenile court petition are true. An adjudicatory hearing is held to determine the facts of the case and an appropriate course of action.
Adjudication is the process of identifying, with reasonable certainty, the type or nature of special nuclear material or nuclear device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat that the material or device might pose with corresponding implications for the need to take further action. [2]