 GET NATIONAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Your Email Address Submit Privacy Notice Advertisement 'He just wasn't right': Inmates credited for helping rescue a deputy who had a stroke Share Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Updated: 0:00 AM CDT Aug 00, 0000 By Harmeet Kaur A group of men incarcerated at a jail in Georgia are being credited with saving the life of a sheriff's deputy.Gwinnett County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Edmond was conducting a routine cell search in a housing unit at the county jail on Aug. 00 when some of the jailed men noticed something was wrong."I could see in his eyes that he was starring off in space and he just wasn't right," John Queen told CNN affiliate WGCL.Edmond had been repeating the same phrase and had dropped a blanket he had been holding, Deputy Shannon Volkodav said the men told her. Video showed him staggering and at one point, leaning over a table for support.It turned out that Edmond was experiencing a life-threatening stroke. And were it not for the actions of six incarcerated men who alerted staff to the medical emergency, the outcome could have been much worse, Volkodav told CNN."No one would have known about it so quickly if it weren't for the efforts of these inmates who intervened and made sure they got help to Deputy Edmond quickly," she said.One man pulled up a chair for the deputy, while others helped ease him into it, Volkodav said. Another went over to the housing unit's phone to call for help, while two others used the deputy's radio. Others started banging on the walls to get the attention of a deputy in the neighboring unit.Medical assistance arrived in just a few minutes, Volkodav said.Edmond underwent surgery after passing a blood clot in his brain and is now recovering at home, she added.