Joshua Brown
Joshua Brown was held at the Turney Center Industrial Complex, a Tennessee Department of Correction prison. The department said he swallowed a balloon containing methamphetamine that a visitor allegedly passed to him during a kiss in a visitation room in February 2022. He later died at a local hospital from an overdose, according to the department and authorities. Other news outlets reported the same account, attributed to those officials.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The Tennessee Department of Correction says Joshua Brown swallowed a balloon of methamphetamine that a visitor passed to him during a kiss in a visitation room in February 2022, and that he later died of an overdose at a local hospital.
Reported by: Tennessee Department of Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.