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Died in prison

Name not reported

died April 2020 · Blackwater River Correctional Facility, Santa Rosa County, Florida

The Florida Department of Corrections said a person held at Blackwater River Correctional Facility, a state prison in Santa Rosa County operated by The Geo Group, died of COVID-19 in April 2020. The person was one of five people from the prison who died of the virus that month, and the five were aged between 65 and 84. The department did not give this person's name, age or sex. The department's account attributes the death to COVID-19.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Florida Department of Corrections attributes the death to COVID-19.

Reported by: Florida Department of Corrections (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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