Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

One of 2 people whose names were not reported

79 years old · died August 6, 2023 · David Wade Correctional Center, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

A man, 68, died on August 6, 2023, at David Wade 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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