Published December 18. 2020 8:27PM | Updated December 18. 2020 10:11PM
Kelan Lyons, The Connecticut Mirror
A 47-year-old incarcerated man died from COVID-19 on Thursday, the 11th inmate to die from the virus since the onset of the pandemic.
The Department of Correction announced the death in a news release Friday night but did not release his name, citing medical privacy laws. The department did say, however, that he d been serving a 2½-year sentence on a sale of narcotics charge and had been approved for a reentry furlough prior to his death, meaning his release may have been imminent.
The man had been transferred to a hospital from the DOC s medical isolation unit at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution on Nov. 28.
Eleventh incarcerated person dies from COVID-19
A 47-year-old incarcerated man died from COVID-19 on Thursday, the 11th inmate to die from the virus since the onset of the pandemic.
The Department of Correction announced the death in a press release Friday night but did not release his name, citing medical privacy laws. The department did say, however, that he’d been serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence on a sale of narcotics charge and had been approved for a reentry furlough prior to his death, meaning his release may have been imminent.
The man had been transferred to a hospital from the DOC’s medical isolation unit at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution on Nov. 28.