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Inmate kills self at private prison in northwest Arizona

An inmate took his life at the privately operated state prison in the northwest Arizona community of Golden Valley, the Arizona Department of Corrections reports.

Dean L. Mills died Saturday from an undisclosed “apparent act of self harm,” it said in a news release.

Mills, 61, had been serving a five year prison sentence for an aggravated assault conviction out of Maricopa County. No further information was released.

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