Faye Beatrice Brown
Faye Beatrice Brown was born in Halifax County in 1953 and raised in Garysburg, the second of eight children. Her friend, lawyer Lynn Burke, described her as special with a heart of gold, and said she earned a bachelor's degree in business and a cosmetology license in prison and later helped other students. Prison officials announced that Faye Beatrice Brown died of COVID-19 on May 6, 2020, while held at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh. Burke writes that she died alone, and the article's author argues that prison conditions and the state's pandemic response were inadequate. Her sister, Ola Davis, spoke up for her, and her family wrote letters of support.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Prison officials announced she died of COVID-19, and her friend, lawyer Lynn Burke, writes that the state's pandemic response was inadequate.
Reported by: prison officials. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.