Alexis Poulin
Alexis Poulin, 28, was held at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in Vermont. Her family said she had two children, had worked steadily, and had started a cleaning business with her mother; she was also receiving therapy and substance abuse treatment. After a medical event at the facility she was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center, where she died on January 17, 2026. State police said the death did not appear suspicious, and later the medical examiner's office listed the cause as cardiac arrest after air entered her chest cavity, due to necrotizing MRSA pneumonia. The Vermont State Police, the Department of Corrections and the Defender General's Prisoner's Rights Office are reviewing her death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The medical examiner's office ruled the cause was cardiac arrest after air entered her chest cavity, due to necrotizing MRSA pneumonia, according to her death certificate.
Reported by: medical examiner's office (medical examiner or coroner); Vermont State Police (outside investigators); Department of Corrections (the agency that held her).