A federal court has now taken up a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of Richard Woods, an inmate at SCI Rockview, challenging the ruling of his 2023 death as a suicide. Woods was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder when he died in April 2023 from what authorities initially determined was a suicide by hanging. However, the lawsuit claims extensive injuries and bruising on his body cast doubt on that ruling. His death is among four inmate fatalities at the facility within seven weeks, all labeled suicides.