A woman from Oakland was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in her cell in Santa Rita Jail Friday, according to the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said 37-year-old Kenyonna Farr was found unresponsive in her assigned cell during a general observation cell at around 3:42 a.m. Despite life-saving measures performed by medical personnel, Farr was pronounced deceased at 4:18 a.m., authorities report.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s officials said Farr was initially arrested by Oakland police under suspicion of a court order violation and booked into the Santa Rita Jail on Tuesday at around 4:45 p.m. She was escorted to the Intake Transfer and Release area of Santa Rita Jail on Thursday, waiting to be transported to court, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said Farr was observed unresponsive inside her holding cell at around 7:20 a.m., and she was taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Farr was then cleared for further incarceration by medical personnel at around 12:30 p.m. and taken back to Santa Rita Jail, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said the circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Oakland was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in her cell in Santa Rita Jail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-219222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}