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Rush City Inmate Dies After Suspected Cellmate Fight as Homicide Investigation Begins

Authorities are focusing on what led to the altercation, with autopsy results pending from the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office.

FILE -- The Rush City prison, which opened in 2000. The Department of Corrections planned to seek $141 million this year to add space for 500 more prisoners at its Rush City facility. But Gov. Mark Dayton left the project out of his bonding proposal
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  • Corrections staff found the inmate unresponsive with obvious injuries at 1:26 p.m. Thursday and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
  • Preliminary information from the Minnesota Department of Corrections indicates the incident involved an altercation with the man’s cellmate.
  • The DOC’s Office of Special Investigations is leading the case with assistance from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office.
  • Officials have not released the identities of the inmates involved as the investigation continues.
  • Minnesota Correctional Facility–Rush City houses nearly 1,000 prisoners, about half convicted of homicide, and saw a separate officer-injury attack in August that led to a transfer to the state’s maximum-security prison.