WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (WTIC Radio)—A federal inmate died Saturday due to COVID-19 while under the watch of the Connecticut Department of Correction.
The 57-year-old man is the sixteenth inmate in the state's Department of Correction to die from complications related to COVID-19.
According to officials, the man had been transferred from the agency's Bridgeport Correctional Center to an outside hospital for treatment on January 2, 2021.
He later died on Saturday, January 9, officials said in a statement.
The man was not serving a Connecticut sentence at the time of his death, officials said.
He was being held for the Federal Bureau of Prisons after he was admitted to the state's prison system on September 9, 2020, officials said.
In the statement, officials explained, "The State's Department of Correction frequently holds inmates serving Federal sentences, keeping with the provisions of a longstanding compact."
The name of the inmate is not being released due to medical privacy laws.
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