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Michael R. Giordano

29 years old · died June 16, 2023 · Washington State Penitentiary, Washington

Michael R. Giordano, 29, was held at the Washington State Penitentiary, where he fell from an upper tier on June 15, 2023. He died at a hospital the following day, June 16. A Washington State Department of Corrections Unexpected Fatality Review Committee report dated October 13 gives the cause of death as a closed traumatic head injury causing anoxic brain injury and classes the manner as suicide. The report's author wrote that his death was the third in the same building within a week.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Department of Corrections Unexpected Fatality Review Committee report lists the manner of death as suicide and the cause as a closed traumatic head injury causing anoxic brain injury after he fell from an upper tier.

Reported by: Washington State Department of Corrections Unexpected Fatality Review Committee (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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