Ninth COVID-19 inmate death in Minnesota prisons
70-year-old man is the fifth inmate to die of the virus at the Faribault prison.
December 19, 2020 — 7:00pm
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A 70-year-old inmate died of COVID-19 Saturday morning after his recent diagnosis, becoming Minnesota's ninth inmate to die of the virus.
The man was exposed to the novel coronavirus while incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault and died at a nearby hospital. The state's Department of Corrections (DOC) has not yet released his name.
It's the fifth COVID-19 death at Faribault, the state's largest prison with an inmate capacity of 2,000.