Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Name not reported

59 years old · died July 5, 2021 · Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, Iberville Parish, Louisiana

A man, 59, died on July 5, 2021, at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, 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 cancer.

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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