CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming prison inmate died Tuesday while being treated at a hospital in Salt Lake City, the Wyoming Department of Corrections said.
The department cannot release details about what Steven Michael Newport, 51, was being treated for at Intermountain Healthcare LDS Hospital at the time of his death because health information is protected, Paul L. Martin, deputy administrator for the department’s transparency division, said. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of his death according to department policy, he said.
Newport was sentenced on 2017 to five to seven years in prison for the unlawful manufacture or delivery of drugs in northeastern Wyoming’s Campbell County. He was born in Long Beach, California.
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