Died in jail or a lockup
Earnest Johnson
Earnest Johnson, 61, is named in a 2024 column in The State as one of 23 people who died at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia, South Carolina, or after being taken from it to a hospital over about ten years. The column does not give the date, circumstances, or cause of his death. He was held at the Richland County jail as a pretrial detainee.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined