Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died September 2019 · Eagle County Detention Facility, Eagle County, Colorado

Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek said in a newspaper column that a person held at the Eagle County Detention Facility in Colorado died by suicide in September 2019, one of two suicides at the facility that month. A news report criticized the county for disclosing the deaths in an opinion column. It asked whether staffing and procedures at the facility were adequate and what steps are being taken to prevent another death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff James van Beek, in a column in the Vail Daily, says the person died by suicide in the Eagle County Detention facility in September 2019.

Reported by: Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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