JUAN CARLOS RAMIREZ

On July 20, 2023, 27-year-old Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano died at Telfair State Prison after officers left him in a ~12-by-8.5-foot fenced-in outdoor recreation cage (no shade) for roughly five hours while the heat index reached ~105°F. Within 20 minutes he told guards he was overheating, that his medication was making him sick, and that he was having trouble breathing and was dehydrated, and he repeatedly asked to be taken off the yard; the family's lawsuit alleges an officer responded "if he dies, he dies." He arrived at the hospital with an internal body temperature of 107°F. GDC reported his death as "natural causes." [2026 UPDATE] His family reached a wrongful-death settlement with the State of Georgia (reported by 13WMAZ as $3.2 million; confirm exact figure on the source page — the outlet's URL slug reads "32m"). The "natural causes" label contrasts sharply with the documented heat-exposure death and the settlement. ADMIN REVIEW: consider whether cause_category should move from 7 (Other) toward Medical Neglect / Homicide given the documented officer indifference; left unchanged pending the ME manner determination. Ties to the GPS heat-deaths investigation ("When the Heat Comes for the Old").