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62 years old · died December 20, 2020 · State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania

A 62-year-old woman with underlying medical conditions had been held at SCI Cambridge Springs in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, since August 2018. She was taken to a local hospital on December 2, 2020, where she tested positive for COVID-19, and she died on December 20, 2020. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and prison officials said her death was the first COVID-19 death of a person in the department's custody at that prison.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections reported the death as COVID-19 in a woman with underlying medical conditions.

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

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