2nd Panhandle-area state prison worker s death linked to COVID-19 this week
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday announced it is grieving the loss of a Panhandle-area state prison employee that is connected to the COVID-19 virus.
Dorothy Caylor, a 62-year-old human resources specialist who had 15 years of service with the TDCJ and was assigned to the Roach Unit in Childress, died Thursday at an Amarillo hospital, according to a news release from TDCJ.
Caylor s death is the second COVID-linked death of a Panhandle-area state prison employee in the last week, with 77-year-old Harold Smith of the Jordan Unit in Pampa dying in an Amarillo hospital on Tuesday, according to the TDCJ.