Crime & Safety
Inmate Dies After 'Physical Altercation' at Enfield Correctional Institution
State Police and the Department of Correction is investigating the death.

State Police and the Department of Correction are investigating the death of an inmate at the Enfield Correctional Institution Friday afternoon.
According to the DOC, staff at the institution responded to an unresponsive inmate at 3:11 p.m. The victim was provided with emergency life saving procedures and then transported to an outside medical facility where he was pronounced dead at around 4 p.m.
The victim, who is believed to have been involved in an altercation with another inmate in his cell was identified as Charles Gattert, 53, of Prospect. Gattert was serving a six-year sentence for risk of injury to a minor and had been incarcerated since September 2012.
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The state medical examiner’s office will determine cause and manner of death.
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