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Police are investigating after a woman died in Denver County Jail on Thursday morning, according to the sheriff’s department.
At about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the Denver County Jail inmate was found non-responsive in her housing unit, the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
A medical team responded to the unit and started life-saving measures, but the woman was declared dead shortly after, sheriff’s officials said. Her cause of death remains unknown.
The Denver Police Department is investigating the death, per the city’s policy for any deaths in custody, according to the news release.
Sheriff’s officials said the woman would be identified at a later date by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
