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Corrections Officer V

Kevin Dupree

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division — Huntsville, TX

COVID-19 →Veteran → Illness

End of Watch November 2, 2021

Age 66

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Correctional Officer V Kevin Dupree died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 while assigned to the Powledge Correctional Unit at 1400 FM 3452 in Palestine.

Officer Dupree was a United States Air Force veteran. He had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division for 28 years.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Corrections Officer V Kevin Dupree died on November 2, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 66.

He is one of 885 officers honored here, and one of 55 at Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

Survivors

He is survived by his two children.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Officer V Dupree gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 28 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer V Dupree.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division

Type Corrections

Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX

Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 2, 2021

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Age 66

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Military Service

Kevin Dupree served in the U.S. Air Force before joining law enforcement.

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The Sacrifice · Illness

Kevin is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

Compare against

Time

In 2021, 564 officers in the United States were lost to illness, more than in any other year.

Every year on record · United States

Who

Kevin was 66. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Kevin had served 28 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.