From [HERE] Family members of an inmate found dead in her cell feel the condition of her body points to neglect by Utah State Prison, or worse.

Priscilla Chavez, 29, was buried Oct. 6 in services by Myers Mortuary in Ogden. As per prison policy, her Sept. 21 death is under investigation by an outside agency, Salt Lake County’s Unified Police Department.

The body was returned to the family within a week of the death after an autopsy by the State Medical Examiner’s Office. For a young woman, only 5-foot-4, with a history of fighting with police officers, the extent of the bruising to the body fuels family suspicions about how she died. She was once raped by a prison guard, who was fired, convicted, imprisoned and sued. The family has shared pictures with the media, and authorized the mortuary to show the injuries, but didn’t want the photos published.

“They’re getting away with murder,” Priscilla Chavez’s mother, Irene Chavez, of North Ogden, said of the prison. “First they rape her, then they kill her.”