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Lacy Laverne Kelley

66 years old · died May 5, 2018 · Iowa State Penitentiary, Lee County, Iowa

Lacy Kelley was 66 when he died on May 5, 2018, at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, where he had been housed in the prison's hospice room because of a chronic illness. The Iowa Corrections Department said he died of natural causes. Records compiled by UCLA Law Behind Bars list his cause of death as chronic illness and place his death at the prison on that date.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Corrections Department said he died of natural causes from a chronic illness while housed in the prison's hospice room.

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

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