Female inmate Christina Black dies in Arizona prison

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Christina Black
Photographer: Arizona Department of Corrections
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Posted: 02/13/2013

PHOENIX - The Arizona Department of Corrections says a female inmate who was convicted of murder has died at the Perryville prison complex in Goodyear.

The department says the death Tuesday of 52-year-old Christina Black was an apparent suicide.

The department says Black entered the prison system in 1999 after being sentenced in Pinal County to a life term.

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