Authorities are investigating after an inmate at the Stillwater prison was found unresponsive and later died.

Staff found the inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater in Bayport around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

Staff “provided life-saving measures while emergency medical services were called to the facility,” DOC officials said in a statement. Shortly after EMS arrived, they determined the inmate had died.

The inmate’s name was not immediately released, and officials gave no information about his cause of death.

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