Another Butner federal prison inmate dies from coronavirus

A 61-year-old inmate at Federal Correctional Complex at Butner died Sunday from COVID-19, according to federal officials.

Jack Edward Talledo, who tested positive for the coronavirus on June 1, had been in custody at Butner since Feb. 11, according to a press release from the federal Bureau of Prisons. He died at a local hospital.

The Butner prison complex, which is about 35 miles north of Raleigh, has one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the federal prison system.

The low security section of the Butner complex houses 1,130 men and as of Sunday had 556 inmates with active coronavirus infections, according to the federal prison bureau.

Five staff members in the low security section have active infections. The prison system reported Sunday that 16 inmates and one staff member from low security had died.

The prison system counts 116 inmates and 11 staff members from Butner low security as having recovered from coronavirus infections.

Talledo was sentenced in the Southern District of Florida to 60 months in prison on charges related to child pornography. He had pre-existing health conditions that made him vulnerable to a more severe case of COVID-19, the prison bureau said.