Correctional Service Canada will investigate the death of an inmate at the Bowden Institution in central Alberta.
Juan Wiens, 34, was found unresponsive in a living unit on Tuesday.
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Staff members immediately started CPR.
Emergency services were called, but the man could not be resuscitated.
Wiens was serving a three-year sentence for driving offences.
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