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One inmate was in his early 60s and housed in the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland before he was hospitalized last month at the University of Maryland hospital. The man died on Dec. 11, the department confirmed. The next day, a man in his early 60s who was housed at North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland died.
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Staff members and incarcerated individuals are beginning to see spikes in COVID-19 infections in Maryland prisons, echoing upward trends in other areas of the state.
Maryland Matters compiled a database of confirmed COVID-19 infections among inmates and department staff at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, finding that 1,349 inmates and 1,003 staff members have been infected since the pandemic’s start.
The data, made publicly available by Maryland’s Open Data Portal, is a weekly snapshot of confirmed cases across state and local congregate living facilities dating back to April 29.