By Associated Press - Sunday, September 29, 2019

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The state Department of Correction says it is investigating what it calls the apparent suicide of an inmate at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.

The department, in a release, says a corrections officer found 29-year-old Jason Boyd Ivey in his cell Friday afternoon.

The release says Ivey was pronounced dead Sunday at a Boise hospital.



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