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Ariene Kimbrough

35 years old · died January 4, 2023 · Limestone Correctional Facility, Limestone County, Alabama

Adrain Kimbrough, 35, came from Lower Peach Tree in Wilcox County, Alabama, and was the father of three children, then 15, 16 and 17. His sister remembers him as loving and caring, a man who lived with bipolar disorder, and she says he was far more than a prisoner. In early January 2023, only days after he was transferred to Limestone Correctional Facility, he was found dead in his cell. The Alabama Department of Corrections said he appeared to have been assaulted by another incarcerated person and investigated the death as a homicide, but his family says it has received little information and blames the state's negligence.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Alabama Department of Corrections said he was the apparent victim of an assault by another incarcerated person, and his sister says the family has been given little information and blames state negligence without naming a specific failure.

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

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