An inmate assigned to the Iowa Medical & Classification Center died June 7 during inpatient status at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
Danny Beason, 64, died of natural causes from advanced lung cancer that had spread to his liver.
Beason was serving a 25-year sentence from Mahaska County for second-degree sexual abuse. The sentence began on April 2, 2004.
— by Jordyn Reiland
