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Inmate Dies At High Desert State Prison

An inmate has died at High Desert State Prison.

The Nevada Department of Corrections reports 65-year-old Ronald Lennon died Monday.

An autopsy is planned.

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Lennon was sentenced in Clark County in 2006 to consecutive sentences on murder and robbery charges.

Those were to run 20 years to life.

Casey Morell is the coordinating producer of Nevada Public Radio's flagship broadcast State of Nevada and one of the station's midday newscast announcers. (He's also been interviewed by Jimmy Fallon, whatever that's worth.)