{"id":1481612,"date":"2026-02-18T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1481612"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:45:32","slug":"nothing-suspicious-in-inmates-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1481612","title":{"rendered":"Nothing suspicious in prison death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County-206x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1390313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County-206x200.jpg 206w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County-361x350.jpg 361w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>GREGG COUNTY \u2014 No foul play is suspected after an inmate died on Tuesday following a medical emergency at the Gregg County jail. According to our news partner KETK, the Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that staff were notified of an inmate having a medical emergency at a dorm in the county\u2019s north jail facility at around 2:25 p.m. When detention officers and medical staff arrived, they found a 68-year-old inmate having a severe medical episode. <\/p>\n<p>Longview Fire and EMS were called to the scene, who then transported the inmate to a local hospital, where he later died. The Texas Rangers were notified and will investigate in accordance with the sheriff\u2019s office policy and Texas Commission on Jail Standards.  More information is expected to be released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY \u2014 No foul play is suspected after an inmate died on Tuesday following a medical emergency at the Gregg County jail. According to our news partner KETK, the Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that staff were notified of an inmate having a medical emergency at a dorm in the county\u2019s north jail facility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1481612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing suspicious in prison death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1481734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County-206x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 15:39:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/Gregg-County-206x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481612"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482446,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481612\/revisions\/1482446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}