Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

John C. Salvi III

died November 29, 1996 · MCI-Cedar Junction, Massachusetts

John C. Salvi III died on November 29, 1996, while held at MCI-Walpole, a state prison in Massachusetts. A 2017 report in The Boston Globe describes his death as a suicide and says he was found under his cot with a plastic trash-can liner over his head. The manner of death is recorded here as suicide, as the Globe report states.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: Massachusetts Department of Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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