The South Central Correctional Center at Licking is on West Highway 32.

A state inmate assigned to the South Central Correction Center at Licking died Monday afternoon at a Columbia hospital.

Joseph Pratt, 71, was serving a life sentence for six counts of rape, sodomy, use of a child in a sexual performance and two counts of abuse of a child from Boone County. 

Pratt had been in prison since May 1990.

An autopsy will be performed

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