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UTAH STATE PRISON — An inmate who was found hanging in his cell died early Sunday morning.
Allen Earl Davies, 67, regained a pulse after officers and medical staff at the prison gave him CPR Saturday about 2 a.m. Davies was transported to a hospital and died at 2:17 a.m. Sunday.
The Unified Police Department conducted an investigation and ruled Davies’ death an apparent suicide. His body was turned over to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
Davies occupied the cell alone and was serving a 1-to-15-year sentence on a conviction of sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony, in January 2002. He was paroled in July 2006 but was returned to custody on a parole violation in April 2007. Davies was paroled a second time in June 2011 but a month later had his parole revoked and returned to prison. In June 2012, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole gave Davies a release date of 2019.
