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March 17, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Inmate Abby Hall dies
PIERRE, S.D.- State prison inmate Abby Hall has died as the result of an apparent suicide.
Hall, age 32, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the South Dakota Women’s Prison in Pierre on March 16. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced deceased.
Hall was serving multiple sentences for unauthorized ingestion of a controlled substance from Codington County and Brookings County and a sentence for possession of a controlled substance from Minnehaha County.
The Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the death.
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