In this case it would be "natural causes" or something else like that which can be written off as not due to any sort of neglect or misbehavior on the part of t

In this case it would be "natural causes" or something else like that which can be written off as not due to any sort of neglect or misbehavior on the part of the prison operators. COVID deaths have already been frequently written off in general as natural causes or "pneumonia" etc as of late because either the victim wasn't tested or there was a desire to minimize the # of reported cases.