Name not reported
A person held at Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg, North Carolina, died in April 2023, according to the state Department of Adult Correction. The department's communications officer, John Bull, described the death as an apparent suicide. A separate department report describes a 2023 death at the same prison after a medical-related emergency, with the cause not released.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (disputed). The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, through spokesman John Bull, called the death an apparent suicide in one account and a medical-related emergency in another, with no cause released.
Reported by: North Carolina Dept. of Adult Correction (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.