Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Name not reported

died January 1896 · Pratt Mines, Alabama

A man held in Alabama's convict system died in January 1896 in a mine accident at the shaft of the Pratt mines, according to the state's physician-inspector of convicts, Judson Davie. Davie attributed the death to the accident and said such deaths are hard to prevent. The man is not named in the account, and nothing more about him is recorded.

Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. The physician-inspector of convicts, Judson Davie, attributed the January 1896 death to a mine accident at the shaft.

Reported by: Judson Davie, Physician-Inspector of Convicts.

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