SAN JOSE — In separate incidents two weeks apart, two men have died while incarcerated at Santa Clara County jails, authorities said.
Neither incident involved obvious signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances, according to authorities, who also haven’t released the suspected manner of either death.
The first incident occurred on Feb. 4, when a man was found unresponsive in his cell at the Main Jail in San Jose, at around 10:28 a.m. and pronounced dead an hour later, police said.
He was identified as Rick Alan Giles, 59, of San Jose. Police say he’d been booked into the jail a month earlier for an alleged parole violation.
Thirteen days later, on Feb. 17, a 57-year-old man died in an open barrack unit at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas. He was pronounced dead within a half-hour of the discovery.
The 57-year-old man has not been publicly identified. He was booked into jail on Dec. 14 on suspicion of multiple counts of burglary and grand theft, records show.
Both deaths are now the subject of a joint investigation involving the county District Attorney and Sheriff’s offices.
