An autopsy has confirmed a drug overdose caused the death of an inmate at Drumheller Institution.
Correctional officers found Justin Wood, 35, unresponsive in his cell just after midnight Sunday, just over an hour after inmates were locked in their cells for the night.
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RCMP investigators have ruled out any foul play, saying Wood was the lone occupant of his cell and the overdose was self-inflicted.
It is the second inmate death in as many months at Drumheller Institution, a medium-security prison 140 kilometres northeast of Calgary.
Billy-Joe Crow Shoe, 32, died Sept. 21 after correctional officers found him in his cell. It’s not immediately known how Crow Shoe died.
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