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Stanley Perkins

65 years old · died December 23, 2020 · State Correctional Institution Forest, Forest County, Pennsylvania

Stanley Perkins, a 65-year-old Black man, died at State Correctional Institution - Forest in Forest County, Pennsylvania, while held there by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The department's report to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency lists the manner of death as natural. A news report lists COVID-19 as the cause of death. Records give the date of death as December 22, 2020 in one place and December 23, 2020 in another.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections reported the death as natural, and a news report links it to COVID-19.

Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); news report.

News reports (2)