{"id":33726,"date":"2016-06-20T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/palmer-inmate-dies-of-natural-causes\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:00:33","slug":"palmer-inmate-dies-of-natural-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/palmer-inmate-dies-of-natural-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer inmate dies of natural causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>A 56-year-old inmate has died of natural causes at an Anchorage hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Corrections says in a release that David Karl Bach was pronounced dead Wednesday evening at St. Elias Hospital in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered from a long-term illness, which wasn\u2019t disclosed, and officials say the death was expected.<\/p>\n<p>Bach has been serving time at the Palmer Correctional Facility since he was convicted on drug charges in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Bach is the fifth inmate to die while in custody this year. Alaska State Troopers and the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office review all prisoner deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 56-year-old inmate has died of natural causes at an Anchorage hospital. The Department of Corrections says in a release that David Karl Bach was pronounced dead Wednesday evening at St. Elias Hospital in Anchorage. He suffered from a long-term illness, which wasn\u2019t disclosed, and officials say the death was expected. Bach has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}