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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials say a 74-year-old inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution south of Boise has died of natural causes.
The Idaho Department of Correction in a statement Thursday says Jay Bruce Gorton was found unresponsive in his bed in the medical unit of the facility at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Officials say he was pronounced dead about half an hour later.
Gorton was sentenced to life in prison in 2008 for lewd and lascivious conduct in Canyon County with a minor under 16.
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