March 18, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

State Prison Inmate Cynthia Thompson Dies

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.- State prison inmate Cynthia Thompson has died.

Thompson reported feeling ill at the Women’s Prison in Pierre overnight. She was air lifted to a Sioux Falls hospital, where she died March 18.

Thompson, age 41, was sentenced from Lake County in December 2018 to 3 years with 1 year, 6 months suspended for unauthorized ingestion of a controlled substance.

An autopsy will be requested.

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