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50 years old · died November 14, 2020 · Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah

A 50-year-old man held at the Utah State Prison's Draper facility died on November 14, 2020, at a hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. The Utah Department of Corrections said he had been housed in Wasatch Facility's A-Block and was one of the first in that unit to test positive. He had been hospitalized since October 12. The Salt Lake Tribune reported he was the third person held at the Draper facility to die after contracting the virus there, and the youngest.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Utah Department of Corrections attributed the death to COVID-19 after he tested positive and was hospitalized.

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.

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