The authorities are now carrying out an investigation into the circumstances under which an inmate at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre died on Monday morning.
The probe is being carried out by the Department of Correctional Services, the Spanish Town police and the Independent Commission of Investigations.
The national security ministry said 37-year-old Nigel Edmundwas found motionless in his cell on Monday.
He was pronounced dead about 9:20 a.m. by one of the department's medical doctors.
Edmund was serving a two-year sentence at hard labour for praedial larceny and was admitted on September 24.
He is the third inmate to die in a cell in recent months.
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