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Died in prison

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72 years old · died September 12, 2025 · Louisiana State Penitentiary, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

A man, 72, died on September 12, 2025, 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 heart-related death.

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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