SPOKANE, Wash. — Another inmate has died in the Spokane County Jail, making the eighth death at the facility in the past 14 months.
The female inmate was pronounced dead at a Spokane hospital on Saturday evening after being found unresponsive in her cell.
The Spokesman-Review says the Spokane County Sheriff's Office is investigating. The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office will release the deceased woman's identity.
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Since June of 2017, three inmates have hanged themselves with bedsheets; one man died in the jail's booking area of unknown causes; another in June of this year possibly as the result of an attack by his cellmate. In late July, a woman was found dead in her cell of unknown causes.
Two weeks ago, a man died after a brawl with a cellmate.
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