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DEER LODGE — The deaths of two inmates who died in separate incidents nearly a year apart in their cells at the Montana State Prison were deemed to be suicides by a jury at the end of a pair of hearings Wednesday in Powell County District Court. Laurence Alan Stewart, 32, was amid a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the prison and corrections officers when he was found dead in his prison cell on April 30, 2020 in the high security area of the prison.  During testimony on Wednesday in the coroner s inquest into Stewart s death, detention officer Jacob Davison said staff was conducting the 6 p.m. head count in the Secure Adjustment Unit and got no response when he reached Stewart s cell. The cell door wouldn t open all the way — a knotted bed sheet was jammed in the track along the top of the door frame — but Davison could see inside that the inmate had hung more sheets up on the windows, rendering the cell pitch black.  

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