Tiffany Mofield
By Alice Speri
A 43-year-old woman died of coronavirus complications in a New
Jersey prison after officials moved her from an area of the
prison where she was quarantined for Covid-19 symptoms into solitary
confinement even though her symptoms persisted.
Tiffany Mofield died on April 29 at the troubled Edna Mahan
Correctional Facility for Women after begging to be let out of a locked
shower, saying “she could not breathe,” a fellow incarcerated woman who
witnessed her death told The Intercept. Mofield had spent about two
weeks quarantined in an infirmary after becoming ill with symptoms
consistent with Covid-19, but she was moved out even though “she was
clearly not better, as she was visibly short of breath and extremely
lethargic,” said Michelle Angelina, who is housed in the same
administrative segregation unit where Mofield died.
“She died right in front of my neighbor’s door and just diagonally
from my door, about five feet away,” said Angelina, who declined The
Intercept’s offer for anonymity to protect her from retaliation. “Many
inmates are frightened for our lives and safety as a result of us
witnessing Ms. Mofield die.”
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Source: The Intercept_
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