Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Jose de la Concepcion Alvarez Arias

46 years old · died March 10, 2004 · Allenwood Low Security Federal Correctional Institute, Granville County, North Carolina

Jose de la Concepcion Alvarez Arias was 46 when he died on March 10, 2004, in Butner, North Carolina, while held in immigration custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Allenwood Low Security Federal Correctional Institute. ICE's published record gives metastatic renal clear cell carcinoma, a kidney cancer that had spread, as the cause of death. The agency's record is the only account of his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to metastatic renal clear cell carcinoma.

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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