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Marco Tolbert

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

Marco Tolbert, 32, died on September 26, 2019, while held at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, a state prison in Alabama. According to the Alabama Department of Corrections, his cellmate alerted officers after finding him hanging from a light fixture in his cell. The department called the death an apparent suicide and said it is investigating. Incarceration Transparency's records also list the cause as suicide by hanging.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Alabama Department of Corrections called it an apparent suicide, and Incarceration Transparency records list it as hanging.

Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Incarceration Transparency.

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