Died in prison
Name not reported
A 69-year-old person held at Goose Creek prison in Point Mackenzie, Alaska, died of COVID-19, according to the Alaska Department of Corrections. The department announced the death about two weeks before the KTOO report and described it as the first COVID-19 death of someone in an Alaska state prison. The department has withheld the person's name.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Alaska Department of Corrections said the death was from COVID-19.
Reported by: Alaska Department of Corrections (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.