The BC Coroner has announced an inquest into the deaths of three inmates at a prison near Agassiz.
All three men were being housed in the segregation unit at Mountain Institution when they died, and all within a period of eight months, from July 2012 to Feburary 2013.
One of the inmates was 54-year-old Warren Robert Allen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for sexual assault and possession of child porn.
Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe says it will be more effective to hold a single inquest into the deaths because the facts and circumstances are similar enough.
A date for the inquest has not yet been set.