GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) - A female inmate at the state prison in Goodyear has died in an apparent suicide, Arizona Department of Corrections officials said Wednesday.
Officials said 47-year-old Tracie Otero died from an apparent act of self-harm by hanging.
Staff at the Perryville prison discovered her unresponsive in her assigned housing location Tuesday morning.
Responding paramedics transported Otero to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
Corrections officials said Otero was sentenced out of Maricopa County for kidnapping in 2016.
They said all inmate deaths are investigated in consultation with the county Medical Examiner’s Office.
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