Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Marco Dewayne Tolbert

32 years old · died September 26, 2019 · Donaldson prison, Jefferson County, Alabama

Marco Dewayne Tolbert was 32 and from Birmingham. On September 26, 2019, his cellmate alerted officers at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, and he was found dead in his cell. The Alabama Department of Corrections called his death an apparent suicide and said it was investigating.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

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

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