WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — An inmate has died at the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility.
The sheriff’s office says the 72-year-old inmate was found unresponsive around 10 a.m. Sunday in the medical clinic unit. Detention deputies and medical staff immediately began life-saving measures.
Sedgwick County EMS and the Wichita Fire Department took over treatment and transported the inmate to a Wichita hospital. He was pronounced dead around 11 a.m.
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According to the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, the inmate had a history of medical issues, including a brain tumor, hypertension, and kidney failure, for which he was recently treated at a hospital. He was under the care of medical staff at the jail’s clinic…