A 33-year-old inmate in an Arapahoe County diversion program has become the second man in the program to die in the past six weeks, officials said Monday.
The inmate, who was in the Arapahoe Diverts Mentally Ill to Treatment (ADMIT) program, was found dead in a Greenwood Village condominium shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
The Arapahoe County coroner’s office identified him as Michael Clinton Shaw. Autopsy results are pending.
Shaw’s body was found after his wife, who was at a separate location, called to request a welfare check because she could not reach him, the release said.
Greenwood Village police responded to the unit, 6001 S. Yosemite St., at the Hermitage Condominiums, which Shaw owned, and found his body. A second man who was at the condo was taken by ambulance to a hospital. The sheriff’s office did not release his name.
Neither the sheriff’s office or police commented on what type of injury or illness warranted the second man’s transport to a hospital. He is not enrolled in the ADMIT program.
Shaw had been serving a jail sentence for violation of a protection order. He was accepted to ADMIT in June and was expected to be released in November.
ADMIT is a voluntary, inmate off-site program conducted in cooperation with the Aurora Mental Health Center. Participants finish serving sentences outside the Arapahoe County jail.
The Greenwood Village Police Department is investigating the death.
The to die while in the program was found Aug. 16 in an ADMIT facility. The 29-year-old man was serving a sentence for identity theft.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822, knicholson@denverpost.com or @kierannicholson
