Matsqui/Abbotsford – A Matsqui Institution inmate serving a sentence for second-degree murder has died of natural causes.
Correctional Service Canada said that James Tyrone Godfrey passed away at the age of 59 in the intensive care unit at a local hospital on October 16.
Godfrey had been serving a sentence for second-degree murder since April 21, 1980.
This comes just days after a lockdown was lifted at Mission Institution.
The lockdown put in place at the medium security unit at Mission Institution on October 2, 2019, has ended and an exceptional search has been completed. The institution has resumed its normal operations. pic.twitter.com/H5JbHuguy3
— Correctional Service (@CSC_SCC_en) October 16, 2019