Died in prison
Jamie Lynn Ridge
Jamie Lynn Ridge, 35, died at SCI Muncy, a state prison in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, while in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The Morning Call reported that she died by hanging on June 3, 2018. Records compiled by UCLA Law Behind Bars, which draw on state corrections data, list her death as a suicide on June 4, 2018. The two accounts give different dates for her death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections reports that she died by suicide by hanging at SCI Muncy, according to records compiled by UCLA Law Behind Bars.
Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held her); UCLA Law Behind Bars (advocates).