Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Monquel Nason

29 years old · died November 20, 2021 · Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, Rankin County, Mississippi

Monquel Nason, 29, died in November 2021 at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, where he was held. His sister, Angel Readus, remembers him as her brother and says he had lived with kidney disease for more than a decade, the same illness that had claimed their mother years earlier. The family says he missed dialysis treatments while in prison. A November 2025 autopsy listed endocarditis with septic emboli as the cause of death, and the family says they still do not know exactly what happened in his final days.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). A November 2025 autopsy listed endocarditis with septic emboli as the cause of death, and his family says he missed dialysis treatments in prison.

Reported by: Autopsy (November 23, 2025) (medical examiner or coroner).

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