{"id":98015,"date":"2025-12-23T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98015\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:31:08","slug":"tarrant-county-jail-inmate-40-dies-after-being-found-unresponsive-in-her-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County jail inmate, 40, dies after being found unresponsive in her cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 40-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tarrant-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tarrant-county\/\">Tarrant County<\/a> jail inmate died Sunday after being found unresponsive in her cell, according to a statement Monday from the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials say the woman received life-saving care from the medical staff at John Peter Smith Correctional Health after she was found unresponsive on Dec. 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">She was transported to JPS Hospital for additional care, where she died later that day, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The woman was initially arrested by the Arlington Police Department on robbery charges and transported to the Tarrant County jail, where she has been housed since Aug. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In-custody deaths are investigated and reviewed by Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office jail staff and criminal investigations division, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and others, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The woman\u2019s identity and cause of death have not yet been publicly released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Her death marks the latest in a string of in-custody deaths at the Tarrant County jail. The two most recent were the deaths of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/woman-died-saturday-in-tarrant-county-jail-custody-cause-unclear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/woman-died-saturday-in-tarrant-county-jail-custody-cause-unclear\/\">57-year-old woman in April 2025<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/male-inmate-61-dies-in-custody-at-tarrant-county-jail-sheriff-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/male-inmate-61-dies-in-custody-at-tarrant-county-jail-sheriff-says\/\">61-year-old man in August 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further information about the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old Tarrant County jail inmate died Sunday after being found unresponsive in her cell, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,294,116,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-98015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-tarrant-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98015","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=98015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}