COLLINS, N.Y. \u2014 State police are investigating a death at a Western New York prison.<\/p>\n
An inmate attacked another inmate around 11 p.m. at Collins Correctional in Erie County. The attack happened in the residential rehabilitation unit.<\/p>\n
Jose Aponte was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. According to the Department of Corrections website, the 34-year-old was serving time for an attempted burglary in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
The other inmate\u2019s name has not been released. State police, DOCCS and the Attorney General\u2019s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n
This information is from WGRZ, our NBC affiliate in Buffalo. Click here<\/a> for more information on their website.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Erie County<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0inmate deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLINS, N.Y. \u2014 State police are investigating a death at a Western New York prison. An inmate attacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,106881],"class_list":["post-249932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-inmate-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249932","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=249932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}