The inmate, identified as Lee Strother, was reportedly found unconscious and unresponsive in his cell on the morning of Jan. 1.

Combined with the 207 people with immigration holds in Minnesota prisons, the number is about 1,000 less than U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been saying, Schnell pointed out.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Thursday released the identity of a man who recently died at Renville County Jail. Percy Lee Strother, of Roseville, has been identified as the man who had a medical emergency at Renville County Jail and later died on Jan.

After two weeks of searching, authorities have arrested escaped inmate Michael Hart in northern Minnesota. Hart was being held at a farm workhouse on a burglary and domestic assault case. A 29-year-old woman was also arrested for aiding an offender.