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A homicide investigation is under way after an inmate died 10 days after allegedly being assaulted by his cellmate at Mt Eden prison.
The man's death is the third homicide investigation involving inmates in double-bunk cells at the prison since September last year.
The death comes amid a Corrections review of a risk assessment tool used in deciding whether prisoners are suitable to share a cell, after the two earlier suspected murders.
Mt Eden Corrections Facility (MECF) general manager Dion Paki earlier told RNZ that staff found a prisoner had been injured at 10.40am on 29 November.
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The inmate was assessed by on-site medical and taken to hospital.
"The alleged perpetrator was immediately secured and placed on directed segre
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