Robert Clark
Robert Clark, 45, died on April 2, 2024, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola while held in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The Department of Corrections said he was injured in an altercation with other men held there, and that officers stopped the fight and prison medical staff began treatment, but he died a short time later. The Department of Corrections and the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office investigated the death, and an autopsy was performed. In a September 2024 report, The Advocate cited the district attorney in describing him as fatally stabbed on his cellblock tier. The state's death records list the manner of death as homicide, based on the autopsy report.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Louisiana Department of Corrections says Clark died after an altercation with three other incarcerated men, and the department's autopsy-based records list the death as a homicide.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); District Attorney Sam D'Aquilla; Incarceration Transparency; UCLA Law Behind Bars; Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him).
Custody: Serving a sentence, held about 10 years.
Sources (7)
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, deaths in 2024 (data file)
- Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars
- Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars, via UCLA Law Behind Bars
- Angola inmate serving for murder, robbery dies after altercation - The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate
- Inmate killed in prison fight at Angola, officials say
- Angola inmate killed during fight, investigation launched
- Louisiana grand jury indicts 7 men in 3 slayings, clears 2 officers in prisoner's death