PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) - An inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has died after being stabbed.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections says in a news release that 43-year-old Randy Lee Burgess was pronounced dead early Friday in the prison’s emergency room.
The department is investigating.
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Burgess was serving 16 years. He was convicted in 2006 of bad-check writing, grand larceny, and shoplifting in Rankin County and armed robbery in DeSoto County.
An autopsy will be conducted.
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