AUGUSTA — An inmate at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center in Augusta was found unresponsive in a cell Sunday afternoon and later died at a hospital.
What happened: Deputy jailers found the inmate at about 1:52 p.m. The inmate was taken to a local hospital, where the person was pronounced dead.
The investigation: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called in to conduct an independent investigation into the death.
The GBI is a state agency that investigates deaths in custody separately from local law enforcement. The investigation is active and ongoing.
B.T. Clark is the Publisher of The Georgia Sun and author of Principles Are Like Pants… You Ought to Have Some. Over two decades in journalism, he has served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc., earning multiple awards along the way. His work has appeared in newspapers across the state, including The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal.
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