{"id":295076,"date":"2026-05-15T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:20:10","slug":"deputies-investigating-inmate-death-at-el-paso-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295076\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies investigating inmate death at El Paso County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Deputies are investigating the death of an inmate at the El Paso County Jail Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office (EPSO) said a 46-year-old woman in custody was found unresponsive on her bunk at the jail around 10:46 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies and medical staff began lifesaving efforts until crews with American Medical Response (AMR) and the Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) arrived at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMR and CSFD continued life-saving efforts, but deputies said the woman was pronounced dead at 11:17 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation is ongoing, but at this time, deputies say self-harm, assault or foul play do not appear to be factors. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Deputies are investigating the death of an inmate at the El Paso County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-295076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}