Robert Eyler
Robert Eyler, 51, died on September 20, 2020, after being held at Jacksonville Correctional Center in Illinois. Injustice Watch reports that he contracted Covid-19 at the prison in August 2020 and died about a month later at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield. The Illinois Department of Corrections reported his death as due to natural causes. His mother, Terry Zahn, who holds his medical power of attorney, said the department never contacted her, and that a nurse at the hospital called her at her son's request to tell her he had been hospitalized. Zahn has said that families of people in prison should be treated with humanity: "Just because they're in prison, don't mean they're not loved."
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). The Illinois Department of Corrections reported the death as natural causes, and Robert Eyler's mother, Terry Zahn, says he contracted Covid-19 at Jacksonville Correctional Center and that the department never contacted her despite her medical power of attorney.
Reported by: Illinois Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Terry Zahn, his mother (family or their lawyers).