4 Inmates Are Killed in Less Than a Month at Nevada Prisons, State Says
The deaths occurred at the High Desert State Prison and Southern Desert Correctional Center, which are less than 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nev., according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Prison officials identified the four men who died as Ryan Warren-Hunt, 35; D'marea Wallace, 18; Jordan Canteberry, 34; and Jacob Herman, 35.
Each of them had been assigned to different housing units, and the homicides appeared to be unrelated, the authorities said.
Prison officials said that they believed that drug debt — in which illegal drugs are supplied on a promise-to-pay basis — was an exacerbating factor in all four inmates' deaths. The officials did not explain how they had reached that conclusion and did not immediately respond on Wednesday to requests for further information about the killings.
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