The New Hampshire Attorney General has identified the resident of Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin that died yesterday as 65-year-old James Dale.
He died after sustaining what correctional officials described as serious injuries from an assault by another resident, whose name hasn't been released.
In 1999, Dale was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and second-degree murder in the death of a 6-year-old girl in Hopkinton two years earlier. He had maintained his innocence and attempted to seek a new trial.
The New Hampshire State Police and the Attorney General's office are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding Dale's death.
