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Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 7, 2025

An official autopsy report has found that a Shelby County Jail inmate died earlier this year from a fentanyl overdose. Justin Segerson was found unresponsive at the jail on Jan. 30 and was taken to Methodist University Hospital, where he died the following day. According to The Daily Memphian, Segerson was one of four inmates to die within a week and one of 61 inmates to have died at the jail since 2019. A recent analysis by paper also revealed that Shelby County surpasses other large counties in Tennessee for inmate deaths. The jail is more overcrowded than it has been in at least five years, and, amid the crowding, more inmates are being placed on suicide watch, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.