Name not reported
A man with mental illness was held at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a privately operated prison near Meridian, Mississippi. Evidence and testimony at a federal civil rights trial about conditions at the prison described him as mentally ill and said he was on suicide watch when he hanged himself. The testimony presented his death as a suicide while he was under that watch, and it is the only account of how he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). Evidence at a federal civil rights trial described him hanging himself while on suicide watch at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the trial testimony points to staff failures around that watch.
Reported by: evidence and testimony at a federal civil rights trial.