A second inmate of the Alaska Department of Corrections has died on Monday from complications related to the coronavirus, the department announced.<\/p>\n
The offender, a 77-year-old, had been in custody at Goose Creek Correctional Center since 2014, according to DOC spokesperson Sarah Gallagher. They were serving a 22-year sentence for sexual abuse of a minor and violating conditions of release. They had been medevaced to the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer on Sunday, Nov. 22. Another Goose Creek inmate died on Nov. 22 from the coronavirus, the first inmate to die in Alaska.<\/p>\n
GCCC is currently experiencing a serious <\/a>outbreak<\/a>, with more than 265 inmates reported with confirmed cases as of Nov. 23.<\/p>\n The inmate was not named to protect their private health information, Gallagher said.<\/p>\n • Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first, also at Goose Creek Correctional Center, died in late November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703,59,729],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-65578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-crime","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}