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Northern Nevada Correctional Center. (Nevada Department of Corrections)
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Updated March 28, 2025 - 9:25 am
A Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died Tuesday, according to a news release.
The release, sent Thursday from the Nevada Department of Corrections, states that Samuel Hamett, 72, was pronounced dead Tuesday, but it did not list a cause of death.
An autopsy was requested, prison officials said.
Hamett was serving a life sentence — with the possibility of parole — for sex crimes with a victim under the age of 16, according to the Department of Corrections.
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