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Died in prison

One of 2 people whose names were not reported

27 years old · died September 22, 2021 · Louisiana State Penitentiary, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

A man, 70, died on September 22, 2021, at Louisiana State Penitentiary, 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 by suicide. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections recorded the manner of death as suicide.

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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