Global Courant 2023-05-30 10:41:27
Santa Barbara County officials launched an investigation on Monday in the death of a man held in custody at the Northern Branch Prison in Santa Mariathe sheriff’s office said.
Prison and medical staff found the unidentified man in his cell at around 2:19 p.m. while doing medical rounds in one of the jails, according to a statement released Monday. The man was unresponsive and not breathing.
Prison officials administered two rounds of Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse an overdose, performed CPR and used an automated external defibrillator, a device used to soothe heart attacks. Additional medical staff were called to the prison, “but the deceased did not recover and was pronounced dead at 2:46 p.m. without having been transported,” the statement said.
Officials are not releasing the person’s name until they can contact his family.
The sheriff’s office and coroner’s office have launched an investigation.
