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James Michael Bailey

70 years old · died January 15, 2018 · State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

James Michael Bailey, 70, was held at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Pennsylvania. Prison officials said he jumped from a second-floor tier of a housing unit early on Monday, January 15, 2018, and suffered life-threatening injuries. He had listed an address on Kelker Street in Harrisburg. He was pronounced dead at a trauma center later that morning, and state police are investigating his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Prison officials at State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill say he jumped from a second-floor housing unit tier, and state police were called to investigate, with no manner of death announced.

Reported by: Laurel Harry, superintendent of SCI Camp Hill, via news release (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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