Two state prison inmates, including a 31-year-old convict, died within three days of each other after both inmates, housed in different prisons, tested positive for COVID-19, the Alabama Department of Corrections said Monday.
Laveris Evans, 31, was serving a 15-year sentence for a robbery that occurred in Jefferson County at the Easterling Correctional Facility in Barbour County. Evans, who was not known to have any pre-existing health conditions, showed symptoms of COVID-19 and tested positive for the disease on June 23, ADOC said. Two days later, he was taken to a local hospital when his condition decreased; While in the hospital, he tested positive for coronavirus a second time. Evans died in the unidentified hospital on Sunday.
Barry Stewart Foy, 57, died Friday in a hospital near Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County. Foy, who was in the prison infirmary for “multiple advanced and chronic diseases,” was tested for COVID-19 on June 11 after another inmate in the infirmary exposed him to the virus and tested positive. Foy tested positive and remained in the infirmary in medical isolation until June 20, when his condition worsened and he was taken to a local hospital, where he remained in care until his death.
