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Nathaniel Bryan Taylor

32 years old · died July 22, 2020 · South Mississippi Correctional Institution, Greene County, Mississippi

Nathaniel Bryan Taylor, 32, was held at South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Mississippi. According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, he was taken by ambulance to Greene County Hospital on July 22, 2020, and pronounced dead in the emergency room. The department said it was investigating and an autopsy was planned; no cause of death has been reported. One outlet noted this was at least the 54th Mississippi state prison death since late December, and the state's prisons are under a U.S. Justice Department investigation.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Reported by: Mississippi 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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