Deaths in Custody
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Jorge Alberto Umana-Martinez

47 years old · died October 30, 2014 · South Texas ICE Processing Center, San Antonio, Texas

Jorge Alberto Umana-Martinez, 47, died on October 30, 2014, while held in immigration custody at the South Texas Detention Complex in San Antonio, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists sepsis as the cause of death, according to its own reporting. The agency's records do not describe his family, work, or the medical care he received before he died.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to 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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