Died in jail or a lockup
James I. Scales
James I. Scales, a Black man, was held in the Pikeville county jail in Tennessee. On November 23, 1943, a small group of white men took him from the jail and shot him to death on the grounds of the Tennessee Training and Agricultural School. The killing was a lynching from custody, and the sources give the cause as a shooting.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A small group of white men took James I. Scales from the county jail and shot him to death on the school grounds, according to the prior extraction summary.
Reported by: news reports.