Died in prison
Name not reported
A man held at the federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia, died in 2021. Federal prosecutors said he fell repeatedly in his cell and in a suicide-watch cell, and that he lay alone on the floor for nearly an hour and forty minutes while staff who had been alerted did not respond. Prosecutors said he died of blunt force trauma to the head, and a medical examiner said he would have survived if he had been hospitalized.
Cause of death, as reported: Died from neglect by staff. Federal prosecutors say he fell repeatedly in his cell and lay alone on the floor for nearly 100 minutes while staff who had been alerted did not act, and that he died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Reported by: federal prosecutors.