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Another inmate housed at a Connecticut Department of Corrections facility has died of COVID-19, the agency said, bringing the total number of virus fatalities behind bars in the state to 13 this year.
The 69-year-old inmate died on Tuesday, Dec. 22 after he had been treated in an external hospital for seven days.
According to the Department of Correction, he was serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, and was not eligible for parole until April.
Due to medical privacy laws, the names of inmates who have succumbed to the disease have not been released.
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Weeks later when news spread about the inmate dying, Gonda told her the virus had already spread like wildfire in the unit.
Leiva said, When he told me that someone died, he told me someone came into the facility for a program but had no temperature but was asymptomatic yet was carrying COVID and got 40 inmates sick in the same wing.
From the reports handed down from the department of corrections, the numbers add up.
The week the deceased inmate was transferred to an outside hospital for treatment the Department of Corrections said 46 inmates tested positive, but the department says they are still following health and safety guidelines.