JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An inmate from South Mississippi Correctional Institution was pronounced dead Tuesday at Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg.
The state Department of Corrections said an autopsy will be done on Timothy W. Walters, 61. He was serving a life sentence after pleading guilty on Aug. 30, 1993, to rape and sexual assault in Jones County.
At least 11 Mississippi inmates have died this year.
At least 106 Mississippi inmates died from late 2019 until the end of 2020. Several inmates died during outbursts of violence in late December 2019 and early January 2020. The U.S. Justice Department announced in February 2020 that it is investigating the state’s prison system.
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