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Jail cells at the Tarrant County Corrections Center in Fort Worth on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.
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A 40-year-old Tarrant County Jail inmate died Sunday, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman was found unresponsive in her cell. Lifesaving measures were administered by medical staff from JPS Correctional Health before she was transported to JPS Hospital for treatment.
She died later Sunday afternoon, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
The woman has been imprisoned in the jail since Aug. 3 after she was arrested by Arlington police on robbery charges, officials said.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine her cause of death and release her name.
Deaths in the jail are investigated by Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office jail staff, the TCSO Criminal Investigations Division, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, an outside law enforcement agency, JPS medical staff, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, according to the news release.
More than 65 inmates from the jail have died since 2017, Star-Telegram media partner WFAA reported.
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