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Inmate serving life sentence dies at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center

James E. Barrows (Nevada Department of Corrections)

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By MAX MICHOR LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

May 5, 2016 - 6:02 pm

An inmate serving a life sentence died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on Thursday.

James E. Barrows, 73, died at the prison’s medical facility around 12:30 p.m. Barrows had been in prison since December 1996, serving a life sentence with possibility of parole for sexual assault.

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