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Joseph Jenkins

61 years old · died September 9, 2025 · Tensas Parish Detention Center, Tensas Parish, Louisiana

Joseph Jenkins died in custody at Tensas Parish Detention Center on September 9, 2025, according to records compiled by Incarceration Transparency.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Incarceration Transparency recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Incarceration Transparency (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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