On September 27, 2022, 67-year-old Carlos S. Contreras was booked into Nueces County Jail. Although there are no indications of medical problems during his incarceration, per the custodial death report (CDR), Mr. Contreras’ means of death in the jail’s custody on October 2, 2022, is shown as illness/natural cause. The address of Nueces County Jail is 901 Leopard, Corpus Christi, TX 78401. Another Nueces County Jail inmate just died in September 2022.

Inmate Deaths are Frequent Occurrences in U.S. Jails

On any given day, it is possible to find news of a county or city jail inmate death that has occurred in the United States. In a Riverside County Jail in Palm Desert CA, a woman who died on October 13, 2022, is said by a news outlet to be the 15^th person to die in that jail this year. She died on her second day in the jail. The County Sheriff’s office said that the woman had a history of medical problems but provided no further information.

Of the 15 people who died in the county’s jails, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly identified only two of them. Both inmates that they provided details on were victims of homicide. The department has not confirmed publicly the other causes of death except in regard to some still-unnamed inmates who “died of drug overdoses.”

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–Guest Contributor