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It then lists COVID-19 as a contributory factor.
Whitlock died Dec. 4 and later tested positive for COVID-19, a death that has stirred questions from the family and from the Reform Movement about COVID safety protocols in the jail and whether Whitlock received appropriate care.
After Vigo Coroner Dr. Susan Amos declined to perform an autopsy due to the county not having the proper facilities to do so on a COVID-positive patient, the family found Pathologix Private Autopsy Services in Valparaiso.
Dr. John Feczko, chief forensic pathologist with Pathologix, performed the autopsy Dec. 18.
His findings, alongside the cause of death and contributory condition, include:
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First published Dec. 21 in TheStatehouseFile.com
For 41 people incarcerated at Indiana Department of Correction facilities, a prison sentence became a death sentence from the pandemic that has claimed the lives of 7,000 Hoosiers.
Data for the toll on prisons is incomplete, with only totals of deaths and cases since the beginning of the pandemic listed. There is no statewide database on cases in jails. Once the virus enters the confined, crowded areas, the results can be deadly. On Dec. 8, 56-year-old Fred Whitlock died of COVID-19 in Vigo County Jail. Whitlock collapsed while carrying his breakfast to his bunk at the Terre Haute facility.