Prison agency reports inmate's death

An inmate at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern was pronounced dead Saturday after corrections officers found him hanging in his cell, according to a news release from the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

Demeckus Singleton, 28, was in a locked single-man cell at the time, the release said. He was pronounced dead at 12:20 p.m.

The Arkansas State Police was notified and will conduct an investigation into the death. The Corrections Department will conduct an internal investigation, as well.

Singleton was serving a 20-year sentence out of Columbia County for theft of property, terroristic threatening and absconding.

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