POLK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) \u2013 The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Saturday that one person has been found dead at the Polk County Jail. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the Texas Rangers and Polk County detectives started an investigation into the death at the jail at around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Their investigation is ongoing and the sheriff\u2019s office said they would identify the deceased after they finish notifying their family or next of kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
POLK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) \u2013 The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Saturday that one person has been found dead at the Polk County Jail. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the Texas Rangers and Polk County detectives started an investigation into the death at the jail at around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. Their investigation … Continue reading One dead at Polk County Jail, officials investigating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 11:08:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495528","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496222,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495528\/revisions\/1496222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}