Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Name not reported

died June 2021 · Halawa Correctional Facility, Hawaii

A man in his 70s died in June 2021 while held at Halawa Prison, Hawaii's largest prison. Hawaii corrections officials later reclassified his death as Covid-19-related, which raised the state's total of coronavirus-linked prisoner deaths to 10, according to Honolulu Civil Beat. The Covid-19 cause is the officials' own classification.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Hawaii corrections officials reclassified the death as Covid-19-related.

Reported by: Hawaii corrections officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

News report