Criminal activity is being ruled out in the death of Indian Posse gang co-founder Richard Daniel Wolfe. The 40-year-old inmate was discovered in medical distress in the Saskatchewan Penitentiary exercise yard last Friday.
Wolfe, who died later in hospital, had a history of heart trouble.
The Correctional Service of Canada says an investigation is underway, but the death does not appear to be suspicious.
“There’s no indication of any foul play in his (Richard Wolfe’s) death,” said Jeff Campbell, a federal department spokesman. “It will be the coroner who makes the final determination as to the exact cause.”
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Wolfe was most recently sentenced in January to five years for an attack and sex assault on a couple in Fort Qu’Appelle in 2014, which happened while he was on statutory release from a nearly 20-year sentence for attempted murder.
At the time of the attack, he had managed to stay sober for a period of time and had begun speaking to young people about the dangers of gang life.
Wolfe’s younger brother, Daniel, who was also involved in the gang’s creation, died from a beating he suffered in the same prison in 2010.
The brothers founded the Indian Posse gang. Richard Wolfe told the Winnipeg Free Press in 1994 that the gang was started in the basement of his mother’s home.
The gang has been linked with crime and violence in and out of prison walls for many years.