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Mississippi man found dead in jail cell

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NEW ALBANY, Miss. (WTVA) – An inmate being held at Union County Jail was found dead in his cell Saturday afternoon.

Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards says 36-year-old Kenneth Bennett of Blue Springs, Miss. died of an apparent suicide. A detention officer found him at around 4 p.m.

Bennett was being held in Union County for MDOC on a charge of commercial burglary and grand larceny.

MBI is now investigating the death.

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