Lawmakers, advocates call for transparency, leadership change following deaths at Huron Valley facility

LANSING, Mich. (News 10) – Advocates are demanding answers after a third confirmed inmate death at the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility.

State officials say 36-year-old Ashley Hoath, originally from Hillsdale County, died on Saturday morning. The Michigan Department of Corrections says Hoath was rushed to Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital before she died on June 6.

Hoath is the third Huron Valley inmate to die in a matter of weeks.

Recent deaths raise concerns

Only a few weeks earlier on May 13, 28-year-old inmate Khaira Howard died at the same hospital. Fifty-seven-year-old inmate Rebecca Fackler died just days later on May 17…

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