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As ABC 11 reports, four inmates at Butner Correctional Institution have died in recent days from COVID-19.  Over last weekend, Charles Richard Rootes, Gary Edward Nixon, and Andre Williams died from complications caused by the virus.  On Monday, another inmate died but his name had not been released publicly at the time of writing.  All of the Butner inmates were being treated in hospitals when they passed away.  On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported that 66 inmates and 25 staff members at the prison had tested positive for the virus.

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