8 prisoners on death row have died of COVID-19 in San-Quentin State prison, California



                              John Beames, 67, was confirmed Tuesday as the eighth condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison to die of coronavirus


Eight prisoners on death row are among at least 15 victims of COVID-19 in California's oldest prison as its outbreak worsens. 

San Quentin State Prison confirmed Tuesday the death of John Beames, 67, of what appeared to be complications related to COVID-19. 

The coroner is still to determine his exact cause of death. 

The prison is experiencing the worst inmate outbreak in California with almost two thirds of its inmates already infected.  

It had previously avoided an outbreak until several detainees from the California Institution for Men in Chino were transferred there in late May, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

Since then, the outbreak has ravaged through the prison's inmates and has hit death row the hardest.

Over half of the deaths in the prison to this point were inmates on death row, which is the nation's largest.   

Beames became the eight death row inmate believed to have died from coronavirus as a result of the escalating outbreak, according to Associated Press. 

Richard E. Stitely, 71, became the first known death linked to coronavirus inside the California prison in mid-JuneManuel Alvarez

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Troy A. Ashmus, 58, died in the prison on July 20. He had been in state prison since 1985Condemned inmate Dewayne Carey died of coronavirus on July 4

San Quentin State Prison has had 15 coronavirus death, eight of which were on death row

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