A prisoner at the South Central Correctional Center died Nov. 8 of apparent natural causes.
A news release said Bobby Stapleton, 55, was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City.
Stapleton was serving a 50-year sentence for two counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, kidnapping and rape out of Jackson County. He was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections on Dec. 9, 1987.