Patrice Florant

Patrice Florant, a 47-year-old Black woman, died on May 7, 2020, while held at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, south of Baton Rouge, according to records compiled by Incarceration Transparency. Those records classify her death as natural. A Marshall Project report published May 14, 2020 said a second woman had died at the same prison, which then had 165 prisoners who had tested positive for COVID-19, the most of any facility in the state.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: Incarceration Transparency.

Sources (2)

• Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, deaths behind bars
• What Women Dying In Prison From COVID-19 Tell Us About Female Incarceration The Marshall Project, May 14, 2020