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BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has announced that one of their employees has died due to complications with COVID-19.
The employee was in his 60s and was a well-respected 26-year veteran correctional officer. He had been assigned to a DPSCS facility in Baltimore City.
The Department is not naming the officer or further discussing his case.
DPSCS has extended condolences and sympathy to his loved ones and says they continue to do everything possible to slow the spread of COVID in its facilities.
