WASHINGTON When Jamycheal Mitchell , a mentally ill 24-year-old, died at Hampton Roads Regional Jail last August after his arrest for a $5 theft, reporters and state officials jumped to investigate. The jail has since come under intense scrutiny, and last week Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring requested a federal civil rights investigation into the conditions inside the facility.

But less than three months after Mitchell died, a 60-year-old man named Mark Goodrum, who faced a misdemeanor charge for smoking marijuana in his own home, was rushed from the same jail to a nearby medical center, where he died.

Goodrums death, unlike Mitchells, did not receive news coverage. Most jail deaths, even at controversial facilities like Hampton Roads, dont attract the attention of the national media or state attorneys general. So Goodrums death was reported for the first time in The Huffington Posts jail deaths investigation , which set out to record every jail death that took place in the year after Sandra Bland died in Texas on July 13, 2015. Only Goodrums name and date of death Nov. 13, 2015 appeared on the state records we obtained through a public records request. Now we have more details.

Goodrum had severe medical issues, and although there are well-documented problems with medical care at Hampton Roads Regional Jail, it is not yet clear whether jail officials are at fault in his death.

What we do know is that Goodrum spent a month in custody, and that he only ended up there because he couldnt come up with $100 to purchase his freedom all for smoking marijuana in his own home.