MACHIASPORT (AP) — Officials say the death of an inmate at the state prison in Machiasport was not a homicide and does not appear to be a suicide.
Stephen McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety says the cause of 32-year-old Phillip Kay’s death remains under investigation. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Kay was found by a guard dead in his cell Friday afternoon at the minimum security Downeast Correctional Facility.
The Portland Press Herald reports that Kay was scheduled to be released next year after serving part of a 12-year sentence for an aggravated assault conviction in 2009. Part of the sentence was to be served behind bars and the rest on supervised release.
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