Man described as 'disruptive individual' dies at Tallahassee federal prison
A 31-year-old man being held at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee’s Detention Center has died in custody there, the Bureau of Prisons said in a news release.
He was identified as Keondrae Andon Neely, who had been awaiting transfer since April to a federal prison after being sentenced in a South Florida court to 20 years on robbery and firearm charges.
FCI Tallahassee consists of a low-security women's prison – Ghislaine Maxwell is perhaps its most famous current inmate – and a detention center, or jail, where men and women are temporarily held pending trial or after sentencing, for example.
Neely had been under observation as "a disruptive individual" when on Wednesday afternoon he "became unresponsive," the release said.
"Employees initiated life-saving measures," it added. "Emergency medical services were requested while life-saving efforts continued. Mr. Neely was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel."
The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service were notified, according to the release, and "no employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured."
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This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Man dies in custody at federal detention center in Tallahassee
