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Wyoming inmate dies from terminal illness

Posted 2/7/13

LUSK, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Corrections says a 60-year-old inmate has died.

The agency says Mary Theresa Sanchez died Tuesday at the Wyoming Minimum Correctional Institution Female Hospice Unit in Torrington following a terminal illness. It did not describe the type of illness.

Sanchez was sentenced in January 2012 to 14 to 16 years on a drug conviction in Natrona County.

A routine autopsy has been ordered.

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