Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

John Sterling

54 years old · died November 6, 2010 · Federal Detention Center, Oakdale, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

John Sterling, 54, died on November 6, 2010, while held in immigration detention at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, Louisiana, in Alexandria. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists sepsis as the cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he died of sepsis.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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