An inmate died Monday at a federal prison in Colorado after being found unresponsive in the facility, according to federal officials.
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George Hall, 55, died while serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Hall arrived at the high-security United States Penitentiary outside of Florence on Aug. 6, prison officials said.
Prison employees found Hall unresponsive and started life-saving measures shortly after noon Monday, according to the release. Paramedics later pronounced Hall dead.
Officials did not specify in the release where Hall was found or announce his cause of death. No employees or other inmates were injured, prison officials said.
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Hall was convicted in South Carolina of attacking another inmate from behind with a weapon constructed from a sock and a metal combination lock, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. At the time of that attack, Hall was serving a 25-year sentence for the 1993 attempted murder of a U.S. Postal Service worker in Florida, federal prosecutors said.
The penitentiary where Hall died is separate from USP Florence ADMAX, a supermax prison in the same federal complex.
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