Brian Walker
Brian Walker, 53, was held at the Varner Unit prison in Lincoln County, Arkansas, and was working in facility maintenance installing lights on July 26, 2024. Corrections officials said he apparently touched a live wire. Infirmary staff began life-saving measures at the scene before he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Officials classified the death as a work-related accident.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Corrections officials say Brian Walker apparently touched a live wire while installing lights at the Varner Unit and died in a work-related electrocution.
Reported by: Arkansas Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.