Wackenhut inmate death a homicide
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August 23, 2002
Death of inmate a homicide
Blunt force trauma cited; cellmate in isolation
The Associated Press
The death of an inmate at a Lost Gap prison
facility has been ruled a homicide,
authorities said.
Sheriff Billy Sollie said a state pathologist
determined blunt force trauma to be the
cause of death of Lonnie Grisham, 58.
Sheriff's deputies said they found Grisham's
bruised and bloody body in his cell
Monday. No weapons were found in the cell.
Sollie said Grisham's roommate Tyrone J. Wilson
was being held in isolation.
Wilson, 29, is being questioned about the death,
authorities say.
East Mississippi Correctional Facility, in the
Lost Gap community west of
Meridian, is a 100-acre prison opened in April
1999 by Wackenhut Corrections.
The prison is designed to house inmates with
special needs, including those with
psychiatric illnesses.