Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Jose Rangel Rodriguez

32 years old · died March 3, 2004 · Kern County Jail (Lerdo), Kern County, California

Jose Rangel Rodriguez, 32, died on March 3, 2004, while held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Kern County Jail (Lerdo) in Bakersfield, California. ICE lists the cause of death as histoplasmosis sepsis, a fungal infection that spread into the bloodstream. The agency's published record gives no further account of the circumstances of his death or the care he received before it.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

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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