George Escamilla
George Escamilla, a 67-year-old man, died on May 8, 2020, at a hospital in Oakdale, Louisiana, after being held at the Satellite Prison Camp in Oakdale, a federal facility. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said he had long-term medical conditions, went into respiratory failure in April 2020, and tested positive for COVID-19. He was placed on a ventilator at the hospital before he died there. The Bureau counts his death as the eighth COVID-19 death at the FCI Oakdale I complex, and an ACLU lawsuit filed at the time described the outbreak at the facility as rampant.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness
Reported by: Federal Bureau of Prisons (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.