All of us know how much this coronavirus is hitting almost every other country on this planet and the US is the leading country that got affected most by this pandemic. There could be nothing worse than dying in prison days before release.
On 13 April, a 60-year-old man William Garrison passed away in his cell after he got effected with the novel coronavirus. No one knew that William is suffering from coronavirus because he had no symptoms of virus till the day he died. You might have no symptoms but still, you can have coronavirus in you. According to prison officials, William was offered the chance of early release on parole but he didn’t accept.
Garrison presented his point of view to the board that “I would rather stay in here until September and walk out a completely free man rather than walk out right now and be on parole and have to report to a parole agent and have to go through all that”
jail. He helped fellow prisoners by reviewing their cases and got many people out of jail” As this coronavirus started hitting the US, the prison officials had that fear that prison would be the center of disease in case a virus spreads in prison. Following this issue, prisons started granting an early release to all vulnerable and elder prisoners.
As per prison personnel, Garrison was once again offered the early parole and this time he agreed on an early release. He was about to be released on 6 May but who would have imagined that all of a sudden he will die on 13 April inside that prison after getting contracted with coronavirus.
