Antonio Bell
Antonio Bell was 29 years old. His father, a retired Army soldier, remembers an energetic, talkative boy who loved football and reading and traveled with the family; his grandmother remembers him helping out at her work meetings, and he wrote about wanting to help change the prison system. He died on January 9, 2020, in a cell where he was held alone at Holman Correctional Facility. Prison staff told his family it was likely an overdose, but the toxicology results were still pending. His family has asked how he could have gotten drugs, and says officers had assaulted him on two earlier occasions.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. Prison staff told his family it was likely an overdose, with toxicology results still pending, and his family asks how he got drugs into the cell.
Reported by: Holman Correctional Facility prison staff (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.