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Eric Fouth

39 years old · died September 13, 2018 · North Central Unit, Izard County, Arkansas

Eric Fouth, 39, died on September 13, 2018, at the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, other people held at the unit who were working nearby found him hanging in a boiler room that Thursday morning. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead there. The department describes his death as an apparent suicide, and the Arkansas State Police and an internal corrections department review are underway.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Arkansas Department of Correction describes the death as an apparent suicide by hanging, with state police and an internal review underway.

Reported by: Arkansas Department of Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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