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Died in prison

Name not reported

Blackwater River Correctional Facility, Santa Rosa County, Florida

The Geo Group, the company that operates the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, Florida, said a person held there died of complications of COVID-19. According to the Northwest Florida Daily News, the person was hospitalized for ten days or more before dying. The company said this was one of four deaths from the illness among people held at the facility. The article gives no name, age, or date for this person.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The GEO Group, which operates the facility, attributes the death to complications of COVID-19.

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

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