(AP)Authorities are investigating after two inmates died in separate instances at Arkansas prisons. One inmate was from Baxter County.
State prison officials say on Tuesday 29-year-old inmate Kenneth Jones, who was serving a 25-year sentence for sexual assault out of Baxter County, was found dead in his cell at the Cummins Unit in Grady.
Jones was convicted in 2011 for sexual assault in the first degree as a result of what Mountain Home Police described, at the time, as alleged inappropriate sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl.
30-year-old inmate Cody Brickner was found dead in his cell Saturday at the maximum-security Tucker Unit. Officials say Brickner was serving a four-year prison sentence for forgery out of Sebastian County.
Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves says the deaths will be investigated internally and by Arkansas State Police agents.
Authorities have not yet released the cause of death for either inmate.
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