Farrell Sampier
Farrell Sampier, 51, died on March 25, 2019, while held at Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola Prison) in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists his death in its yearly death data as natural, with a vascular cause, meaning a bleed or stroke. A separate record gives the cause as medical neglect. The department's data does not describe his care in the days before he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died from neglect by staff (disputed). The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death as a vascular death (a bleed or stroke), and a news report labels it medical neglect.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him); news report.