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Laveris Evans

31 years old · died July 12, 2020 · Easterling Correctional Facility, Barbour County, Alabama

Laveris Evans was 31 years old and from Jefferson County, Alabama. According to the Alabama Department of Corrections, he had no known pre-existing health conditions. While held at Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio, he developed symptoms and was tested for COVID-19 on June 23, 2020; two days later he was taken to a hospital. He died there on July 12, 2020, one of the youngest people in Alabama's prisons to die of the virus.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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