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A female Bucks County Correctional Facility inmate has died after being taken to the hospital.
The woman, whose name has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at Doylestown Hospital Wednesday, the county confirmed in a statement on Thursday.
No additional details were released, but officials said the death was under investigation.
The Bucks County Detectives and Bucks County Department of Corrections Investigations Unit are leading the probe.
The Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown Township had four inmate deaths in 2022. Wednesday’s death is the second one of a county inmate in 2023.
Octavius Davis, 35, of Bristol Township’s Croydon section, was identified of the person who died at the county jail in January.
The first death of 2022 at the correctional facility happened in March. Inmate Edwin Dunfee, 46, of Philadelphia, died at the facility by suicide.
Christopher Robert, 25, of New Hope, killed himself in June 2022 by purposely choking on food at the jail, the coroner said.
In early July 2022, Floyd Harper, 37, of Tullytown Borough, died by suicide while jailed on charges filed by Amtrak police.
Charles Hall, 50, died in July 2022 from a pulmonary thromboemboli due to deep vein thrombosis. His cause of death was ruled natural.
According to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics and this news organization’s tally dating back to 2015, Bucks County has reported seven inmate suicides, one homicide, and eight medical-related or accidental deaths at the correctional facility, according to Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s extraordinary occurrence statistics and this news organization’s tally.
