Died in jail or a lockup

Jimmy Laverne Keenan

58 years old · died February 23, 2017 · Aiken County Detention Center, Aiken County, South Carolina

Jimmy Laverne Keenan, 58, died at the Aiken County Detention Center in Aiken, South Carolina, on a Thursday night, according to WACH.com, and was pronounced dead at Aiken Regional Medical Center. Authorities found him unresponsive in the showers during a routine check around 6 p.m. WACH reported that an autopsy attributed his death to natural causes. A later record compiled by Incarceration Transparency gives the date of death as February 24, 2017, rather than the night of February 23.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: autopsy.

Sources (2)

Incarceration Transparency, South Carolina Deaths Behind Bars (Prof. Madalyn Wasilczuk and Incarceration Transparency) Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, deaths behind bars
Inmate who died in Aiken County jail Thursday identified WACH.com, February 24, 2017

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