Isaiah Trinity Cabrales
Isaiah Trinity Cabrales was 20 and from Las Cruces. In July 2018 he died at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, where he had been held in solitary confinement for about seven months. The state Corrections Department says he hanged himself from a light fixture in his cell. A man held in a neighboring cell said he had talked with Cabrales because he was young and seemed unable to cope with isolation, and court records indicate he had a traumatic brain injury at some point in his life. Prison officials declined to say whether he had been screened for mental illness.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). The state Corrections Department says he hanged himself from a light fixture in his cell, and advocates say his solitary confinement and lack of mental health screening contributed to his death.
Reported by: New Mexico Corrections Department (the agency that held him); advocates.
Custody: Serving a sentence.