Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Vance Lamar Paige

54 years old · died August 26, 2015 · Whitfield County Detention Center, Whitfield County, Georgia

A man held in the Whitfield County Jail in Georgia died in 2015 at a local hospital. The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office listed the cause of death as cancer and a bowel blockage. A separate record names Vance Lamar Paige, 54, as dying in custody at the Whitfield County Jail on August 26, 2015, and lists the cause as illness. Whether that record refers to the same man, and how his final illness was handled, remain unclear.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office listed the cause of death as cancer and a bowel blockage.

Reported by: Whitfield County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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