Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

54 years old · died August 19, 2021 · Louisiana

A woman, 54, died on August 19, 2021, 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 COVID-19.

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.

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