Second prisoner dies at Terre Haute federal prison

By GEORGE HALE Mario Waters arrived at U.S. Penitentiary-Terre Haute last year. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) A prisoner has died at a high-security federal facility in Indiana, according to prison officials. It was the second time since December that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a death at the U.S. Penitentiary-Terre Haute. Staff discovered Mario Waters, 35, unresponsive after “a perceived altercation with another incarcerated individual,” the prison bureau reported Monday. They started life-saving measures and requested emergency services; after responding, employees “isolated and contained the incident,” the statement said. EMS workers transported Waters to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The bureau added that no other individuals were injured in the incident, which it said occurred shortly after midnight Sunday night. Bureau officials said they notified the FBI of the death. An FBI spokesperson didn’t immediately return messages Monday, which was a holiday. Court records indicate Waters arrived at the facility last April after a federal jury in Arkansas& gave him a life sentence& for conspiracy to sex traffic a child. It was the second death inside the prison in as many months. The first was a man in the “Special Confinement Unit,” or federal death row, on...