Karen Okafor

Karen Okafor died by suicide at the Monroe County Jail in New York on March 30, 2014, according to the New York Division of Criminal Justice Services. A Democrat and Chronicle report published in February 2015 counted her death as the fifth self-inflicted death at the jail between 2012 and 2014. The state's Commission of Correction report on her death had not been made available when that article was published.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The New York Division of Criminal Justice Services lists the death as a suicide at the Monroe County Jail, with no further account of the circumstances available.

Reported by: New York Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Source

• Watchdog report: Jail suicides Democrat and Chronicle, February 28, 2015