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Report: KSP Investigates After Inmate Dies In Graves Co.

Posted at 11:23 AM, Apr 21, 2019
and last updated 2019-04-21 11:23:55-04

GRAVES COUNTY, Ky. (WPSD) — Kentucky State Police were investigating after an Graves County Detention Center inmate was found unresponsive and later died.

WPSD reports the inmate was found unresponsive Saturday night at the jail.

He was taken to Jackson Purchase Medical Center and later to Baptist Health Paducah, where he was pronounced dead.

The identity of the inmate has not been released yet. An autopsy is being conducted in Louisville to determine the inmates cause of death.