Honorio Pantaleon
Honorio Pantaleon, 33, was held at San Quentin State Prison in California, where he had arrived in March. His family said he had struggled with mental health problems for about a year before he was sent to prison and needed treatment there. Prison staff found him hanging in his cell on August 23, 2010, and spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said he had also cut his neck; he was kept on life support at a Bay Area hospital until his organs could be donated, and he died there on August 27. Prison officials said he had been held alone while being processed, and described his death as a suicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. San Quentin State Prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said Pantaleon hanged himself in his cell and had also cut his neck.
Reported by: San Quentin State Prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.