Another Connecticut inmate has died from complications related to the coronavirus. The Department of Correction said in a press release the 69-year-old male had been transferred from the agency’s MacDougall-Walker Medical Unit to an outside hospital for treatment December 21, where he died Saturday morning. The man is the 14th inmate to die of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
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