Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Ann McDonald

79 years old · died May 2, 2013 · Central California Women's Facility, Madera County, California

Ann McDonald, 79, died on May 2, 2013, while held at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, where she had been staying in a skilled nursing unit. Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the state prisons department, said she died of natural causes. The account in the source is the department's own claim, and no other account of the cause of death appeared in the reporting.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: Dana Simas, spokeswoman for the state prisons department (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.

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