County officials said a 53-year-old woman inmate was found dead in her cell at the Cumberland County Prison on Friday, Jan. 2.

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An investigation is underway after a female inmate at the Blair County Prison was found dead Friday in her cell. According to Blair County Coroner Ray Benton, his office was alerted to the death at 10:23 a.

Stearns County corrections officers responded to an inmate who pressed the intercom button in his cell. When officers arrived, water was spilling onto the jail's floor, according to the criminal complaint. The water came from a sink the inmate allegedly pulled off his cell wall.

A prison officer working on the day an inmate died was suspended following a disciplinary hearing, an inquest heard. Matthew Osborne was found in his cell on the segregation unit at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire on 25 November 2023.

An inmate in the St. Landry Parish jail attempted suicide Friday, in what Sheriff Bobby Guidroz called a lapse in maintenance by the parish government.