NEWPORT -- An inmate has died two days after a suicide attempt, Arkansas prison officials said Thursday.
Department of Correction spokesman Dina Tyler said Jesse James, 29, of Conway died Wednesday night at a hospital where he was taken after being found hanging from a bedsheet in his cell at the Grimes Unit in Newport.
He was serving a 15-year sentence for theft and burglary in Faulkner County.
Tyler said guards found James hanging and unconscious in his cell about 9 p.m. Monday and that he never regained consciousness.
James' body was sent to the state Crime Laboratory to determine the exact cause of death.
State Desk on 12/19/2014