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WBRZ Investigative Unit: Inmate serving time in Dixon Correctional Institute dies of overdose
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JACKSON — An inmate who died of a drug overdose at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson was the second unexpected death at the facility this month.
Sources told the WBRZ Investigative Unit on Monday that Tyran Jones, 33, died Dec. 21 from a drug overdose. Two weeks earlier, inmate Kenneth Proctor died unexpectedly.
The WBRZ Investigative Unit has requested data on deaths at Dixon for the entire year of 2025.
The Investigative Unit has previously several deaths at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Iberville Parish. Data show that 46 inmates have died at Elayn Hunt since January, with 16 of those deaths being "unexpected."
Seven unexpected deaths have occurred at Elayn Hunt in the past three months:
- Rodger Javers, 50, died on Sept. 23 (pre-existing condition)
- Daniel Burton died on Sept. 26 (unexpected)
- Duke Alsobrook, 56, died on Oct. 5 (pre-existing condition)
- Jerry Selvage, 60, died on Oct. 5 (pre-existing condition)
- William Hilton, 62, died on Oct. 7 (pre-existing condition)
- Percy Wallace, 71, died on Oct. 12 (pre-existing condition)
- Edward Bodely, 73, died on Oct. 13 (pre-existing condition)
- Kevon Matthews died on Oct. 16 (unexpected)
- Michael Johnson died on Oct. 17 (unexpected)
- De'Troit Draper, 30, died on Nov. 24 (unexpected)
- Calvin Campbell, 41, died on Dec. 2 (unexpected)
- Justin Rice died on Dec. 7 (unexpected), and
- Antonio Dukes, 38, died on Dec. 24 (unexpected).
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