East Mississippi Correctional Facility inmate’s cause of death unknown
Published 3:45 pm Thursday, January 4, 2018
- Dave Bohrer / The Meridian StarAn inmate at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility in Lauderdale County hanged himself Thursday, officials said.
An East Mississippi Correctional Facility inmate was found unresponsive in his cell Wednesday night and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Staff members at the facility found Oscar Glasper, 54, unresponsive around 10 p.m., began performing emergency care and called Metro Ambulance to the facility, according to Lauderdale County Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun.
Calhoun said Metro Ambulance took Glasper to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
“There were no obvious signs of trauma,” Calhoun said. “The investigation is ongoing.”
Calhoun said Glasper’s body had been sent to the State Crime Lab in Pearl for an autopsy, which may determine a cause of death.
According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Glasper was sentenced to life in Humphreys County for capital murder, rape and sexual battery in 2002.
