List of prison deaths

This is a list of notable people who have died in prison, whether actually in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. In alphabetical order, this list does not include inmates who were executed as punishment for their crimes. Most of them died from suicide.

NameDate of deathCause of deathKnown forComments
Abu Abbas2004Natural causesMilitant
Omar Abdel-Rahman2017Coronary arterial diseaseTerrorist
Jesse Anderson1994Beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher ScarverAmerican murderer
Susan Atkins2009Brain tumorMember of the Manson family
Andreas Baader1977Alleged suicideMember of the Red Army Faction
Josef Bachmann1970SuicideAttempt to assassinate APO student leader Rudi Dutschke
Klaus Barbie1991LeukemiaNazi war criminal
Steve Biko1977Bludgeoned to death by South African police[1]South African anti-apartheid activist
Sandra Bland2015Alleged suicideAmerican protester
Heinrich Boere2013Natural causesNazi war criminal
Samuel Bowers2006Cardio-pulmonary arrestAmerican white supremacist
Ian Brady2017CancerBritish serial killer
Walter Breen1993CancerAmerican child molester
Ariel Castro2013SuicideKidnapped and raped three American women for over a decade.
Richard Chase1980SuicideAmerican serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer1994Beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver[2]American serial killer and cannibal
Garry David1993Died from wounds caused by self-mutilationRobbery and attempted murder
Byron De La Beckwith2001Heart attack[3]American assassin
Sigurd Debus1981HungerstrikeAlleged member of the Red Army Faction
Albert DeSalvo1973MurderedThe Boston Strangler
Antonie Dixon2009SuicideNew Zealand thief and murderer
Edarem2012Lung CancerAmerican Internet personality
Gudrun Ensslin1977Alleged suicideMember of the Red Army Faction
Clayton Fountain2004Heart attackMember of the Aryan Brotherhood
Yuri Galanskov1972Death from an operation by ao surgical qualificationsRussian poet, historian, and human rights activist, imprisoned for his writing
Kasturba Gandhi1944Natural causes
Hermann Göring1946SuicideNazi war criminal
John Gotti2002Throat cancerAmerican Mafia boss
Ryan Gracie2007Died as a result of brain injuryBrazilian mixed martial artist
Emil Hácha1945UnknownPresident of Czechoslovakia, later of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Katharina Hammerschmidt1975Untreated cancerMember of the Red Army Faction
Donald Harvey2017Killed by fellow inmateSerial killer
Colin Hatch2011Suspected homicideNotorious murderer and child molester
Siegfried Hausner1975Severe burns untreated in custodyMember of the Red Army Faction
Aaron Hernandez2017SuicideFormer tight-end for NFL team New England Patriots, murderer of Odin LloydFound not guilty of the 2012 double homicide of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado just 5 days before he was found dead
Rudolf Hess1987SuicideNazi war criminal
Myra Hindley2002Died in hospital after heart attack in prisonBritish serial killer
Colin Ireland2012Died as a result of hip injury.[4]British serial killer of gay men
Ilse Koch1967Suicide by hangingCommandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
Ronald Kray1995Heart attackBritish gangster and murderer, twin brother of Reginald Kray
David Lane2007EpilepsyAmerican white nationalist
Ervil LeBaron1981Natural causesAmerican Mormon fundamentalist
Robert Ley1945Suicide by hangingNazi war criminal
Liu Xiaobo2017Liver cancerPrisoner of conscienceNobel Peace Prize laureate (2010)
Richard Loeb1936Murdered by fellow inmate[5]American murderer
Charles Manson2017Natural causesLeader of the Manson Family
Philip Markoff2010SuicideAmerican murdererKnown as the "Craigslist killer"
Andrew Martinez2006SuicideNude activist
Ulrike Meinhof1976Alleged suicideMember of the Red Army Faction
Holger Meins1974Hunger strikeMember of the Red Army Faction
Slobodan Milošević2006Heart attackSerbian and Yugoslav president
Tjostolv Moland2013SuicideSentenced to death for murder, and espionage for NorwayDied in Congolese custody[6]
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan1993Liver cancerMexican Mafia leader
Dennis Nilsen2018Pulmonary embolismBritish serial killer
Lou Pearlman2016Cardiac arrestManager of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC
Lawrence Phillips2016SuicideAmerican football player
Gavrilo Princip1918Malnutrition and skeletal tuberculosisYugoslav terroristAssassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, beginning World War I
Richard Ramirez2013CancerAmerican serial killer
Jan-Carl Raspe1977Alleged suicideMember of the Red Army Faction
James Earl Ray1998Hepatitis CAccused assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jack Ruby1967Pulmonary embolismAmerican nightclub owner

Murdered Lee Harvey Oswald

Bobby Sands1981Hunger strikeIrish republicanDied along with 9 other Republicans on hunger strike. See 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
Ingrid Schubert1977Alleged suicideMember of the Red Army Faction
Harold Shipman2004Suicide by hangingBritish doctor who killed many of his patients
Liu Shaoqi1969unknownPresident of the People's Republic of ChinaWrongly named a traitor during the Cultural Revolution
Richard Speck1991Heart attackAmerican mass murderer
John Straffen2007Natural causesBritish serial killerLongest-serving prisoner in British legal history, was in prison for 55 years until his death
Robert Stroud1963Natural causesThe Birdman of Alcatraz
Wolfe Tone1798SuicideLeader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion against Great Britain
Toussaint Louverture1804Natural causesLeader of the Haitian Revolution who was imprisoned for launching a rebellion against France
Anthony Van Egmond1838Pneumonia, malnutrition and exposureDutch war veteran and an early settler in the Huron Tract
Nikolai Vavilov1943MalnutritionRussian botanist and geneticist who was imprisoned for his struggle against pseudoscience
Vercingetorix46 BCStrangulationGaulish leader defeated by Julius Caesar
John Anthony Walker2014UnknownUnited States Navy Chief Warrant Officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985
Raoul Wallenberg1947 or laterExtrajudicial punishment in Soviet Lefortovo prisonDiplomat, rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Fred West1995Suicide by hanging[7]Multiple murders; was on remand awaiting trial
Carl Williams2010Bludgeoned to deathAustralian crime bossMurdered by fellow inmate while serving sentence
Yip Kai Foon2017Lung cancer[8]Hong Kong armed robber with AK-47
Graham Young1990Heart attackPoisonerDied in Parkhurst prison. Heart attack is the official cause of death but there has been speculation that other prisoners may have been responsible.
Sergei Magnitsky2009Closed cerebral cranial injuryRussian tax accountant who specialized in anti-corruption activitiesMagnitsky alleged there had been large-scale theft from the Russian state, sanctioned and carried out by Russian officials. He was arrested and eventually died in prison.

References

  1. ↑ Pillay, Verashni (2007-09-12). "Keeping Steve Biko alive". News24. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  2. ↑ Serial killer's property set to go on the auction block." CNN.com. May 8, 1996.
  3. ↑ Stout, David (2001-01-23). "Byron De La Beckwith Dies; Killer of Medgar Evers Was 80". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  4. ↑ Pink News: Exercise yard fall contributed to death of Gay Slayer.
  5. ↑ The Leopold and Loeb Trial:A Brief Account Archived 2007-03-15 at the Wayback Machine. by Douglas O. Linder. 1997. Retrieved 11 April 2007.
  6. ↑ Rydland, Julie (29 August 2013). "Congo: Prisoner took his own life". The Norway Post. Aftenposten. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Steven Morris (2007-09-20). "Serial Murder and the Psychology of a Sexual Sadist: Frederick West". New Criminologist. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  8. ↑ "'King of Robbery' Yip Kai-foon dies of cancer". Radio Hong Kong. 19 April 2017.

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