Deaths in Custody
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Thomas Ferguson

died April 27, 2018 · Santa Fe County Adult Correctional Facility, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Thomas Ferguson died at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility in New Mexico in late April 2018. Santa Fe County said officers found him hanging from a sheet in his cell on a Friday evening. The county said he was alone in the cell and was not on suicide watch. No ruling on how he died is reported.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Santa Fe County says officers found him hanging from a sheet in his cell and that he was alone and not on suicide watch.

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

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