Female inmate dies in Jackson hospital
A female inmate serving a life sentence in the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility died at a Jackson Hospital today.
The Department of Corrections reported 68-year-old Patricia White died at the Baptist Medical Center.
She was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder in 1998 in Pontotoc County. The corrections department says foul play is not suspected, but an autopsy will be done to determine her cause of death.
The Justice Department is investigating violence and poor living conditions at Mississippi prisons. This inmate has become the 22nd inmate in just over two months to die.
Some deaths have been attributed to violent outbursts and gang-related activities while others have been ruled suicides or from natural causes.
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