Name not reported
A person held at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in Greene County, New York, died of COVID-19 in early January 2021, the second of two people from the prison to die over the same weekend. The deaths were among six COVID-19 deaths in New York state prisons over three weeks. Advocates said the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision was not treating the outbreak as a health crisis. The department said it was following state health guidelines and had expanded testing.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). Advocates say the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is not treating the COVID-19 outbreak as a health crisis, and advocates called the state's response inadequate.
Reported by: advocates; New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (the agency that held them).