Inmate Found Dead At SCI Greene

Authorities at the State Correctional Institution in Greene County are reporting the death of an inmate.  Superintendent Robert Gilmore says employees were conducting security rounds on a housing unit Sunday night around eleven-thirty, when an officer discovered an inmate, 51-year-old Jake Wesley, unresponsive in his cell.    Gilmore says State Police are conducting an investigation and the official cause of death will be determined by the Greene County Coroner’s Office.  Wesley was serving a life sentence for first degree murder out of Allegheny County.  He was committed to the prison in 1996.