Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A 35-year-old person died in 2023 while held at the Cook County Correctional Facility in Chicago, Illinois. The New York Post reported that the death was an overdose from smoking paper soaked in a synthetic drug. The article tied the death to a wider pattern of drug-soaked paper at the facility that year.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The article links the death to synthetic-drug-soaked paper smoked at the facility, a trend it says appeared there that year.
Reported by: news article on the Cook County Correctional Facility death (reporters).