Roll of Honor
Codie Whitley-Turner
Incident
Corrections Employee Codie Whitley-Turner died as a result of contracting COVID-19 while serving at the Huntsville Unit at 815 12th Street in Huntsville.
Corrections Employee Whitley-Turner had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division for ten years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Corrections Employee Codie Whitley-Turner died on September 9, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 32.
He is one of 884 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 mother, father, four siblings, girlfriend, and six children.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Employee Whitley-Turner gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Employee Whitley-Turner.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Corrections Employee Codie Whitley-Turner is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In TX, 204 of 2,422 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8.4% of this state's fallen. That is 8.4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division, 55 of 124 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 44.4% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Codie Whitley-Turner's cause is highlighted.
How Codie Whitley-Turner Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Codie Whitley-Turner is highlighted in Sep.
Incident Location
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