For more information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, (307) 777-6085; e-mail mbrazz@wdoc.state.wy.us

Earl Leroy Brown, Sr., a Wyoming inmate, died Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon, after a long illness. He had been housed there since January 2009.

Mr. Brown was sentenced on November 7, 2001 by District Court Judge Keith Kautz in Goshen County to three consecutive sentences of 7-10 years each for third degree sexual assault and a fourth sentence of 1-3 years for felony possession of forged writing to be served consecutively to the first three sentences.

Mr. Brown was born on July 26, 1958 in Powell, Wyoming.

As per departmental policy an autopsy has been ordered.