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Detravia Bryant

Detravia Bryant died while held at Ware State Prison in Georgia. Georgia corrections officials told his family he had killed himself, according to the family. When the funeral home received his body, officials called the family because it was bruised and appeared to have been strangled. His uncle said that a year later, after a second autopsy, the family still had not received a cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (disputed). Georgia corrections officials told the family he killed himself, but the family says the funeral home found his body bruised and appeared strangled, and his uncle says the family still has no cause of death a year after a second autopsy.

Reported by: Georgia corrections officials (the agency that held him); Detravia Bryant's family, including his uncle (family or their lawyers).

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