Another Vermont inmate dead in cell

A Vermont prison inmate who surrendered to his probation officer after learning he was the target of a drug investigation was found dead in his cell. 49-year-old Michael Crosby appeared to be sleeping in his cell at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility but was unresponsive when guards tried to wake him up last Wednesday. Crosby is the second Vermont inmate to die in recent days. Twenty-three-year-old Ashley Ellis died August 16th at Northwest State Correctional Facility three days after she began a 30-day sentence stemming from a highway accident. An autopsy on Crosby is pending to see if drugs played a part in his death.