CNN, which first reported the news. It goes to the family of Jenna Mitchell, who died December 6, 2017, at Valdosta State Prison when she was just shy of age 25.Mitchell was imprisoned at Valdosta for a 2015 robbery conviction and was serving a sentence of up to 10 years.
Prison officials had placed her in solitary confinement at various times over several months. At the time of her death, she had been in solitary confinement for two weeks.
She had been told she was “being moved to the compound for transgender inmates,” says a lawsuit her parents filed in 2019.She had sent a letter to her parents “saying she was going to pull a ‘suicide stunt,’” NBC News reports.