{"id":221818,"date":"2026-03-16T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221818\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:44:17","slug":"oakland-woman-found-dead-in-santa-rita-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221818\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland woman found dead in Santa Rita Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland woman was found dead in her cell at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on Friday, according to an Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office press release.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyonna Farr, 37, was found unresponsive in her assigned holding cell around 3:42 a.m. during a general observation check. Despite administering life-saving measures and requesting emergency medical services, Falck ambulance responders pronounced her deceased at 4:18 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Farr was arrested by Oakland police on suspicion of a court order violation and booked into Santa Rita Jail around 4:45 p.m. on March 10.<\/p>\n<p>On March 12, Farr was taken to the Intake Transfer and Release area of Santa Rita Jail awaiting transportation to court. Around 7:20 a.m., Farr was seen unresponsive in her cell. Deputies began life-saving measures and she was taken to a nearby hospital in an ambulance. Farr was cleared by medical personnel to be taken back to the jail around 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Farr\u2019s next of kin was notified, and the cause and manner of her death will be determined by a forensic pathologist following an autopsy and toxicology testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland woman was found dead in her cell at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on Friday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7626,14367,143,145,144,101371],"class_list":["post-221818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-dublin","tag-jail","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-santa-rita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221818","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=221818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}