Died in prison
Patrick Jones
Patrick Jones, 49, of Texas, died of COVID-19 on March 28, 2020, at a hospital after a week on a ventilator. He was held at the Oakdale federal prison complex in Oakdale, Louisiana, which holds nearly 1,900 people. The account reports him as the first person in Bureau of Prisons custody to die of the disease.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The record says Patrick Jones died of COVID-19 at a hospital after a week on a ventilator, but it names no source for that cause.