A Pima County correctional officer glances inside a cell at the county jail.
A Pima County jail inmate has taken his own life, making it the second suicide there in a week.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department says corrections officers doing rounds discovered 40-year-old Amin Shaheed Muhammad Ali unconscious in his cell Sunday afternoon.
Corrections officers and the jail's medical staff attempted life-saving measures but he was pronounced dead.
Authorities say he died by strangulation using a bed sheet. There were no signs of foul play or of anyone else's involvement.
Officials at the Pima County Adult Detention Complex say officers had conducted a security check 10 minutes earlier and saw nothing amiss.
Ali was in custody for charges of introducing contraband into a corrections facility.
This death occurred five days after another inmate, 50-year-old Hugh Gillespie Burford, died in a similar manner in a cell.
Investigations into both deaths remain ongoing.
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