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Iowa prison inmate dies of COVID-19 complications

Published September 5, 2021 11:46 AM

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder has died from complications related to COVID-19 and multiple preexisting medical conditions. The Iowa Department of Corrections said in a news release that 81-year-old Phillip Benito Cuevas was in hospice care at the Iowa State Peninitentiary when he died Saturday. Cuevas had been serving a life sentence for first-degree murder from Polk County. His sentence began in 1977.

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