(KAIR)--A Lansing Correctional Facility inmate is dead, with the cause of death, pending the results of an independent autopsy.

40-year-old Michael Aineta died Wednesday after being transported to the KU Medical Center where hospital staff pronounced him dead.

The investigation is currently ongoing by the Kansas Department of Corrections and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

According to a release from KDOC, Aineta was serving a 190-month sentence for one count of rape and one count of criminal sodomy convictions in Seward County.