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California inmate dies in Mississippi prison
By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4
California's prison medical care receiver is investigating the death of an inmate who was being housed out of state in Mississippi.
"I'm told it was an asthma-related death," said receiver's spokesman Rich Kirkland.
Corrections officials identified the inmate as Robert Washington, 41, of San Joaquin County. Washington was serving seven years for vehicle theft.
Autopsy results on Washington's April 23 death are still pending, corrections spokesman Oscar Hidalgo said Tuesday.
Washington died at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Miss. The prison is owned and operated by the Corrections Corp. of America.
Washington is the second inmate moved under California's out-of-state transfer plan to have died in custody since the program got under way two years ago. Anthony Kelly, 48, serving eight years on a drug case, died last May from an apparent heart attack while watching a fight involving other inmates.
There are now 3,765 California inmates serving their time out of state, Hidalgo said.
State officials embarked on the transfer plan to help relieve pressure in the state's overcrowded prisons. Two public employee unions filed suit to block the transfers. The unions prevailed in Sacramento Superior Court, but the cases are pending on appeal.
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- Call Andy Furillo, Bee Capitol Bureau, (916) 321-1141.
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