Kingman, USA - Mohave County Jail officials are force-feeding polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs after he refused to eat and became debilitated.
A court document filed Monday said Jeffs' condition deteriorated last week and "his death could be imminent without immediate medical intervention."
The letter, written by medical director Kirsten Mortenson to Superior Court Judge Steven F. Conn, said he would be evaluated daily and force feeding discontinued when he improved.
Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is serving time on charges related to his marrying an under-age girl to an adult member of his sect, which is based in the Utah-Arizona border communities of Hildale and Colorado City.