Died in custody
Name not reported
A woman, 49, died on March 19, 2019, while held outside Louisiana 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 a vascular death (a bleed or stroke).
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 her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.