Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Hainolia Jail, Hainolia, Louisiana

Two Black people held in the jail at Hainolia, Louisiana, were taken from the jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge outside the town, according to a September 1886 report in the Narragansett Herald. The report gives no names for either person. Their deaths are described as lynchings from custody.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source