Linwood Jones
Linwood Jones, 62, of Allentown, died on December 15, 2024, while held at the Lehigh County Jail, according to The Morning Call. The newspaper reported that he was found unresponsive in his cell on a Saturday afternoon and was taken by ambulance to St. Luke's Hospital-Allentown, where he was pronounced dead early Sunday. The Lehigh County coroner's office and district attorney's office are investigating, and the Morning Call reported the cause and manner of death as pending. A Pennsylvania state dashboard of custody deaths, citing the Lehigh County Prison, lists the manner as natural causes and gives the date as December 16, 2024.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Lehigh County Prison reported the death to the state crime commission as natural causes, while the coroner's office said the cause and manner were still pending.
Reported by: Lehigh County Prison (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.