According to WTVA, an inmate was found dead in a cell at Union County Jail.
The incident happened Saturday afternoon. MBI is investigating.
Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards told WTVA that 36-year-old Kenneth Bennett of Blue Springs, Miss. died of an apparent suicide.
A detention officer found him at around 4 p.m.
WTVA reported that Bennett was being held in Union County for MDOC on a charge of commercial burglary and grand larceny.