LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Arkansas State Police are investigating the weekend deaths of two state prison inmates at separate correctional units.
Little Rock television station KATV reports that a correctional officer found 33-year-old inmate Joshua Autry unresponsive in a single-man cell at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys around 3:58 a.m. Sunday. Autry was pronounced dead at the unit infirmary at 4:22 a.m.
Autry was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder from Drew County.
A second inmate, 30-year-old Kevin Shelton, was found unresponsive in a single-man cell at the Varner Unit in Grady around 3:35 p.m. Sunday. Correctional officers and medical staff provided medical treatment before transporting Shelton to the unit infirmary, where he was pronounced dead at 4:02 p.m.
Shelton was serving a 20-year sentence for negligent homicide from Pulaski County.
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