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Luis Alonso Zamora Villa

31 years old · died September 8, 2012

Luis Alonso Zamora Villa, 31, died on September 8, 2012, while held at a federal prison. The Nation reported that he had been placed in solitary confinement after a fight, and that the prison's chief psychologist evaluated him without a translator. He died by hanging in the small room where he was held, and his death has been reported as a suicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: prison staff. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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