Deaths in Custody
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23 years old · died 2023 · Cook County Jail, Cook County, Illinois

A 23-year-old person was found dead at the Cook County Correctional Facility in Chicago in 2023. The New York Post reported the death as an overdose from smoking paper soaked in synthetic drugs. The article placed the death within a wider trend of people smoking strips of paper laced with these drugs, and connected it to another recent death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose

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