Name not reported
A 32-year-old man died on July 28, 2020, at the Whiteville Correctional Facility, a state prison in West Tennessee run by CoreCivic, at a time when about 40 people held there had tested positive for the coronavirus. A CoreCivic spokesperson said he had tested negative twice while at the facility and tested positive only during a preliminary autopsy after his death. The cause of death is listed as COVID-19 according to that account.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. A CoreCivic spokesperson said the man tested negative twice at the facility and tested positive only during a preliminary autopsy after his death.
Reported by: CoreCivic spokesperson (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.