Name not reported
A 71-year-old man held at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison died on December 15, 2020, after testing positive for COVID-19 and being hospitalized, the Utah Department of Corrections said. He was the first person from that facility to die and the tenth person in Utah custody to die after contracting the virus. Prisoners and families have said the state is not doing enough to help sick people.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Utah Department of Corrections attributes the death to COVID-19; prisoners and families say the state is not doing enough to help sick people, but no specific failure of care is named for this death.
Reported by: Utah Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.