Sheri M. Graves

Another Alleged Inmate ‘Suicide’; Mother of Shaylene Graves: ‘Only six weeks remained in her eight-year sentence’

Special to the Sentinel

Shaylene Antoinette Graves, 27, was found hanging in her cell on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at the California Institute for Women Correctional Facility in San Bernadino, California. She was to be released in six weeks after serving an eight-year sentence. The Sheriff’s Department has alleged her untimely death, one of many, as a “suicide.” Friends and family of Shaylene challenge their statement and seek answers.