Benjamin Davis
Benjamin Davis, a man from Colorado, was found dead at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, where he had been transferred under an interstate corrections agreement. The Colorado Department of Corrections announced his death on August 27, 2017, and a later autopsy update, cited through the Carbon County Coroner's office, said the death was a suicide. The Denver Post reported that authorities said he killed himself and that an autopsy had been ordered. Davis had been linked in investigative documents to the 2013 killing of former Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, a case the El Paso County Sheriff's Department said remains under investigation.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Carbon County Coroner's office, as cited in a Colorado Department of Corrections release, confirmed it was a suicide.
Reported by: Carbon County Coroner's office (medical examiner or coroner); Colorado Department of Corrections (the agency that held him).