An inmate at a Department of Corrections facility died yesterday morning.
Leslie Aveoganna, 57, passed away at the Wildwood Correction Center in Kenai, according to a statement from DOC spokesperson Megan Edge. Aveoganna began serving a sentence at the facility in 2015 for a kidnapping conviction.
There are no signs of foul-play or suicide, according to the release, and the death is under investigation by state officials.
DOC says this is the third prisoner death in a department facility this year.
Zachariah Hughes reports on city & state politics, arts & culture, drugs, and military affairs in Anchorage and South Central Alaska.
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