GRADY — Monday at approximately 8 a.m., staff members at the Varner Unit in Grady discovered inmate Rodney Weston unconscious in his cell. Responding correctional officers and medical staff began emergency treatment. The inmate was pronounced dead at the Varner Unit.
Arkansas State Police was immediately notified and will be conducting an investigation in to the incident. The Department of Correction will be conducting a separate internal investigation in to the incident.
Inmate Weston was a 36-year-old black male. He was serving a sentence of life without parole for capital murder out of Chicot County.