The Arkansas Department of Corrections says an inmate who died in a cell at the East Arkansas Regional Unit apparently took his own life.
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Investigators from the Arkansas State Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death. Public information officer Cathy Frye says the death appears to have been a suicide. The 44-year-old man was serving a four-year sentence for a theft-of-property conviction out of Marion County.