Her brother died in an Arkansas jail. She’s still waiting for answers.

By: Abbey Kim

Outlets: Arkansas Advocate

Published: April 3, 2026

Words: 2,133

Last Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago


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This article was produced as a collaboration between Arkansas Advocate and the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale.

On a hot July day in 2022, a police officer knocked on Linda Bradley’s door in Russellville, Arkansas, and told her that her brother, Daniel Lewis White, was dead. He had died at age 69 in the Sebastian County Jail in Fort Smith, where he had been detained for 11 days.

Bradley was shocked.