Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Jose Lopez-Lara

56 years old · died October 24, 2004 · Eloy Federal Contract Facility, Maricopa County, Arizona

Jose Lopez-Lara, 56, died on October 24, 2004, while held in immigration detention at the Eloy Federal Contract Facility near Phoenix, Arizona. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which held him, lists the cause of death as a cerebral infarct, commonly called a stroke. The agency's published record gives no further account of how he died or of his medical care before death, and no one has disputed that cause.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE listed the cause as a cerebral infarct, a stroke.

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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