He was strangled to death by a fellow inmate who is serving time for murder.
Hmmm ... my personal thoughts on prison are that they should group and house the inmates according to what crimes they commit ... put the murderers with other murderers; rapists all together; theives together and so on. That way, you don't have the murderers killing the rapists and the rapists raping the thieves and all that. The rapists could rape each other, the killers could kill each other, the thieves could steal cigarettes and candy bars from one another.

Anyway, it's kind of a long story but you can read it HERE if interested.