{"id":20299,"date":"2025-10-31T00:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:39:18","slug":"erie-county-coroner-investigating-inmate-death-at-sci-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20299\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Coroner investigating inmate death at SCI Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761871158_144_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3HCpEo_1691CFD200\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie, Pa (<a href=\"http:\/\/yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WJET\/WFXP<\/a>)\u2013 An inmate at State Correctional Institute Albion is dead after the prison said he was found unresponsive in his cell Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>SCI Albion said 25-year-old Andy Ortiz was found unresponsive in his cell and life-saving aid was given by prison staff and later by EMS. He was later declared dead at 12:18 am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-man-sentenced-for-2023-murder-of-man-found-decomposing\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Erie man sentenced for 2023 murder of man found decomposing <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said Ortiz was found in his bunk and no cause of death has been determined at this time. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>SCI Albion said Ortiz was convicted of unlawful contact with a minor in Philadelphia County, with court documents showing he was sentenced to 5-15 years in prison and pleaded guilty to several other felony sex-related offenses. <\/p>\n<p>Ortiz arrived at the prison from SCI Phenix in February 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie, Pa (WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 An inmate at State Correctional Institute Albion is dead after the prison said he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2376,136,14061,138,137,182,2375,2374],"class_list":["post-20299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-breaking-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-coroner-investigating-inmate-death-at-sci-albion","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-wbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}