Correctional Service Canada says an inmate from the Atlantic Institution has died at a hospital in Miramichi, N.B.

Houstan Henderson, 55, had been serving a four-year sentence for break and enter, theft and breach of conditions.

He had been at the facility in Renous since October 2011. He died Monday.

The statement did not include a cause of death.

Police and the coroner have been notified and Correctional Service Canada is investigating.