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Arkansas' prisons, including Tucker, have experienced a rash of inmates dying of drug overdoses while serving their prison sentence behind bars in the year 2018. This phenomenon is not just isolated in Arkansas but rather nation-wide. The drugs have been thought to be either fentanyl or synthetic marijuana. Varner Unit, Tucker's sister unit, experienced five drug-related inmate deaths in a four day span during August 2018 ( Dan Shelton, who was 54 years old serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping, burglary, and others, was the second of two inmates at Tucker who died in the same week during October 2018 . The other inmate, Harrison Flanery, who was 46 years old serving a 14-year sentence which began in 2014 for sexual assault