MANSFIELD — A 29-year-old woman died Wednesday at the Richland County Jail, according to a press release from Sheriff Steve Sheldon.
Corrections officers at 7:08 a.m. found an “unresponsive female inmate,” identified as Maggie Copeland, in a medical unit cell at the jail, according to the sheriff.
“Correctional officers and the jail’s medical staff responded to the cell and immediate, life-saving measures were performed,” Sheldon said in the statement.
Jail staff contacted emergency medical services and the Mansfield Fire Department took the inmate to OhioHealth Mansfield. Copeland was pronounced dead at approximately 7:42 a.m., the sheriff said.
The incident remains under investigation, Sheldon said.
When an inmate goes to the medical unit cell, they are left there for hours without being checked on. The room is ice cold to where you can see your breathe. So if your in there because of chest pain…. might as well forget it.