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Alan Curtis Dorris

54 years old · died July 28, 2018 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi

Alan Curtis Dorris, a 54-year-old man, died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes. Reports give two different dates for his death: January 16, 2016, at Unit 30 of the prison, and July 28, 2018.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: Mississippi Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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