Roll of Honor
Joe Charlie Landin
Incident
Corrections Officer V Joe Landin died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak among employees and inmates at the Montford Unit in Lubbock, Texas.
Officer Landin had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 25 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Corrections Officer V Joe Charlie Landin died on December 28, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 54.
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 two sons, two daughters, and seven grandchildren.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Officer V Landin gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 25 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer V Landin.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Corrections Officer V Joe Charlie Landin is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In TX, 204 of 2,421 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8.4% of this state's fallen. That is 0.7 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
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. Joe Charlie Landin's cause is highlighted.
How Joe Charlie Landin Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Joe Charlie Landin is highlighted in Dec.
Incident Location
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