Died in jail or a lockup

Mandi Tosca-Smith

37 years old · died January 2011 · Durham County Detention Facility, Durham County, North Carolina

Mandi Tosca-Smith, 37, died in January 2011 at the Durham County jail in North Carolina. County and state records list her death as a suicide by hanging from a sheet tied to an air vent in her cell. Those records also list her death among the jail's vent-related suicides.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. County and state records list her death as a suicide by hanging from a sheet tied to an air vent in her cell.

Reported by: county and state records.

Source

Durham County knew of jail suicide hazards for 20 years. 12 people died. Durham Herald Sun, June 26, 2018

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