By Jacob Gallant | September 25, 2020 at 4:39 PM CDT – Updated September 25 at 4:39 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi Department of Corrections announced plans to bury an inmate after none of his family could be tracked down.
Charles Morris died on September 14 at a hospital in Jackson.
Morris, 72, was serving a life sentence at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility after being convicted in 2002.
MDOC says they exhausted all of their sources to locate his family.
An autopsy will need to be done to determine his cause of death.
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