Michael Mellen

Massachusetts Department of Correction — Milford, MA

Suicide Honored

End of Watch August 25, 2011

Age 46

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 14

Survivors

Parents Richard H. and Shirley H. (Hardy) Mellen of Uxbridge, Massachusetts

Biography

Michael Mellen served as a Captain in the Massachusetts Correctional Officers Service for 22 years, assigned to the Souza Baranowski Maximum Security Facility in Shirley. He retired in 2010. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts on May 25, 1965, Michael was a graduate of Westfield High School, Worcester Academy, and UMass Dartmouth. He enjoyed vacationing in Maine and Florida and playing golf. He was 46 years old.

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Tributes

Captain Michael Mellen served with the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Thank you for your service. We will always remember your sacrifice.
You belong on this wall. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Massachusetts Department of Correction

Location Milford, MA

Platform Identity mdc.worcester.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 25, 2011

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

Date Joined January 1, 1988

Age 46

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Suicide

Laid to Rest Northbridge, Massachusetts

Captain Michael Mellen is one of 256 officers honored for deaths connected to the weight of the job across the full record of this memorial — 0.8% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MA, 9 of 469 officers were honored for deaths connected to the weight of the job — 1.9% of this state's fallen. That is 1.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0.8%.

At Massachusetts Department of Correction, 1 of 15 officers on record were honored for deaths connected to the weight of the job — 6.7% of this agency's fallen.

Massachusetts Department of Correction

of 15 officers

6.7% Suicide

MA — Statewide

of 469 officers

1.9% Suicide

Nationwide

256

of 32,508 officers

0.8% Suicide