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VT Corrections Dept. reports inmate death
By burlingtonfreepress.com- Sam Hemingway
Published: 03/26/2014

A 44 year-old Burlington man who pleaded guilty last year to repeatedly sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl died in his St. Albans prison cell early Tuesday morning.

A prison guard making a routine check of prisoners at the Northwest State Correctional Facility discovered Shayn Turner having a “medical episode” in his cell at 1:40 a.m., according to a statement issued by the Vermont State Police later Tuesday.

Correctional officers and a prison nurse attempted unsuccessfully to revive Turner and he was declared dead at 2:18 a.m. His body was later transported to Northwestern Medical Center.

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