High prison death toll continues after 33-year-old man found unresponsive in cell

The entrance to the South Dakota State Penitentiary’s East Hall. (Courtesy of South Dakota Department of Corrections)

An inmate died in Department of Corrections custody this week, adding another name to a list of in-custody deaths that’s higher than the state has seen in recent memory.

Travis Long Fox, 33, died Friday in a Sioux Falls hospital. He’d been there since Tuesday, when he was found unresponsive in his cell at the South Dakota State Penitentiary…

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