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Sammie Townsend

66 years old · died June 29, 2014 · Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Sammie Townsend died in custody at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on June 29, 2014, according to records compiled by Incarceration Transparency.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Incarceration Transparency recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Incarceration Transparency (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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