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Woman dies at Chillicothe prison

An inmate at the Chillicothe Correctional Center died during the weekend.
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An inmate at the Chillicothe Correctional Center died during the weekend.

By NewsPress Now

Officials at the Chillicothe Correctional Center are reporting the death of an inmate.

Sheila Phillips, 61, died at the prison at 6:39 a.m. on Nov. 3, of apparent natural causes, officials said.

She began serving a six-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, armed criminal action and tampering with physical evidence from Stone County and for abandonment of a corpse from Dade County this March.

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