Inmate From Black Hills Dies Following Illness

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A South Dakota prison inmate from the Black Hills has died following an illness.

Corrections officials gave no specifics about the illness that claimed 46-year old Michael Rich. Rich passed away Sunday in a comfort care setting at the Jameson Annex of the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

Rich was serving a 15-year sentence with 1-year suspended from Meade County for aggravated assault.