The Correction Department reported the death of Antonio Rauls, an inmate at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit, who was found unresponsive in his assigned cell and didn’t respond to emergency treatment.

The State Police was called to investigate, generally a sign that the death had a suspicious cause, frequently drug use, but a prison spokesman provided no further details.

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