MENARD—The number of prisoner deaths inside the walls of Menard maximum-security prison in Chester continues to rise.
According to an Illinois Department of Corrections spokesperson a 30-year-old man was found hanged in his cell today, Monday, May 27.
Menard Correctional Center
The spokesperson said the inmate, who is said to have no indications of suicide or of threatening to harm himself, was serving a 40-year sentence for murder and was housed in a single-person cell.
The man was found with a bed sheet around his neck.
Officials say they will not release the name of the inmate until his family members have been notified.
This makes the fourth inmate death in Menard this year with 35-year-old William Crowder found murdered by “manual strangulation” March 26.
Crowder was the third murder since January 31.
Two other inmate deaths, 25-year-old Jason Hall and 64-year-old Yusuf Abzir, have also been ruled homicidse.
The Department of Corrections is not releasing many details surrounding the deaths.