Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

68 years old · died March 12, 2018 · Louisiana

A man, 68, died on March 12, 2018, in a parish jail, in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department lists the death in its yearly death data, which does not give names, and gives the cause as sepsis.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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