Deaths in Custody
U.S. Virgin Islands

At least 1 people have died in custody in U.S. Virgin Islands

1 is recorded here one by one.

Each dot is one of them, held in a jail, prison or lockup, or executed by the state. Some died after abuse by officers; others from withdrawal, overdose or untreated illness; many by suicide. Almost all of them show the state’s neglect of the people in its custody.

This is an undercount: many deaths are never made public, and older records are hard to find.

Records go back as far as 2022 and are current as of October 19, 2026Get email alerts for U.S. Virgin Islands

Their stories

0 people, most recent first. Choose a name, or a dot on the map.

    Their names

    When they died

    One mark per person, by the year they died. Choose the box at the side to see every decade. Coverage is uneven: recent deaths come mostly from local news since 2000, older ones from official lists and historical newspapers, so the shape shows what was recorded as much as how many people died.

    Where these records come from

    Each bar is a source and the years its records cover. Sources checked on a schedule are searched again for new records; the others were collected once.

    1. Local news2000–today · Searched again every night · News coverage searched county by county and year by year
      2000 to today

    The 1 U.S. Virgin Islands records here draw on 1 news reports from 1 outlets, mostly local newspapers and TV stations. Each person’s reports are listed with their story, so every detail can be traced to where it was published.

    How these records were made · See these records in a table

    Last updated October 19, 2026.

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