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Derek Ryan Klugh

20 years old · died 2000 · Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Derek Ryan Klugh, 20, died in 2000 while held at Lancaster County Prison in Pennsylvania. Lancaster Newspapers records, as cited in a 2015 LancasterOnline report, list his death as a suicide by hanging with his bedsheets. The records say he had been housed in a minimum- to medium-security section of the prison at the time.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Lancaster Newspapers records say he hanged himself with his bedsheets while housed in a minimum- to medium-security section of the prison.

Reported by: Lancaster Newspapers records (reporters).

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