Four inmates have been killed in less than a month at two state prisons in Nevada in what corrections officials said appeared to have been drug-related homicides, a cycle of violence that prompted the state to place both facilities under heightened security.
The deaths occurred at the High Desert State Prison and Southern Desert Correctional Center, which are less than 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nev., according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Prison officials identified the four men who died as Ryan Warren-Hunt, 35; D’marea Wallace, 18; Jordan Canteberry, 34; and Jacob Herman, 35.
Each of them had been assigned to different housing units, and the homicides appeared to be unrelated, the authorities said.
Prison officials said that they believed that drug debt — in which illegal drugs are supplied on a promise-to-pay basis — was an exacerbating factor in the inmates’ deaths. The officials did not explain how they had reached that conclusion and declined to release further information about the killings, citing continuing investigations.
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