Died in prison
James David Johnson
James David Johnson was 26 years old. Around 1:50 a.m. on December 24, 2016, he was found unresponsive in a restricted cell at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, and he died. The Alabama Department of Corrections indicated he had taken his own life. His death came only days after another suicide in Alabama's prisons, at a time when advocates were in court pressing the state to protect people at risk of suicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Alabama Department of Corrections says he died by suicide after he was found with a bed sheet around his neck.
Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.