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Stanley Bentley

died 1992 · Vermont

Stanley Bentley died of cancer in 1992 while held at Southeast State Correctional Facility in Vermont, according to former superintendent Mike Coxon. Coxon said the prison later tried to reach Bentley's family, but the contacts Bentley had given staff turned out to be fictitious. Coxon also said the state did not have Bentley's correct Social Security number.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Former superintendent Mike Coxon says Stanley Bentley died of cancer in 1992 while incarcerated.

Reported by: Mike Coxon, former superintendent at Southeast State Correctional Facility (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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