Maryland corrections authorities confirmed Sunday that a 34-year-old prisoner at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup, segregated from the general population for “security reasons,” was found dead on Friday.

Mark Vernarelli, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correction Services, said the inmate?s death was being treated as a “homicide.” Prison authorities are withholding the man?s name until his family can be contacted.

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