Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Alejandro Diaz-Salgado

48 years old · died February 3, 2008 · South Louisiana Detention Center, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Alejandro Diaz-Salgado, 48, died on February 3, 2008, while held in immigration custody at the South Louisiana Detention Center in Mamou, Louisiana. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed the cause of death as multi-system organ failure.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to multi-system organ failure.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

News report