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Sam Brake

66 years old · died April 17, 2026 · Great Plains Correctional Center, Oklahoma

Sam Brake died in a hospital on April 17, 2026, held at Great Plains Correctional Center, in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Sam Brake was 66 years old. The department lists the manner of death as natural.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Oklahoma Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Oklahoma Department of Corrections (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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