One of 2 people whose names were not reported

A man, 56, died on May 28, 2021, at Louisiana State Penitentiary, in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department lists the death in its yearly death data, which does not give names, and gives the cause as an overdose.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. Incarceration Transparency recorded the manner of death as overdose.

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

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• Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, deaths behind bars