Andrew Ziesmer

Andrew Ziesmer, 20, died on October 10, 2008, after the Department of Corrections said he hanged himself in his segregated cell at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin. The department said it will investigate whether prison workers could have prevented the death. No family or advocate accounts of his life appear in the source material.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Department of Corrections says Andrew Ziesmer hanged himself in his segregated cell and that it will investigate whether staff could have prevented the death.

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

Source

• Man convicted of kidnapping stepfather hangs self in prison Pioneer Press, October 13, 2008