Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Rolando Jimon Tiniguardo

19 years old · died September 30, 2009 · Columbia Care Center, Columbia, South Carolina

Rolando Jimon Tiniguardo, 19, died on September 30, 2009, while held in immigration detention at Columbia Care Center in Columbia, South Carolina. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed diabetes complications as the cause of death. The agency's record is the only source here, and it gives no further account of how his illness was treated in the days before he died.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to diabetes complications.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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