Inmate Death at Bonne Terre Prison

(Bonne Terre) An inmate from the Bonne Terre prison has died.

A news release from the Missouri Department of Corrections says 63-year-old Marvin Cotton died from ‘apparent natural causes’ Saturday morning.

He was serving a life sentence for forcible rape and sodomy out of St. Louis city.

Cotton was first sent to prison in December of 2004.

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