MINOT, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation will not investigate the death of a Ward County Jail inmate.
Oscar Wilkie III of Minot was booked into the jail on Jan. 4 on drug charges. He suffered a medical emergency on Jan. 7 and was taken to a hospital, where he died three days later.
State Department of Corrections Facility Operations Director Don Redmann tells the Minot Daily News that there is nothing to indicate any potential wrongdoing that the state needs to investigate.
Autopsy results are pending. The Corrections Department has asked the Ward County Jail to conduct an internal review of the death.
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Information from: Minot Daily News, http://www.minotdailynews.com
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