The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a man was found unresponsive at the Jackson County Detention Center and later died at a local hospital overnight.

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The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said corrections officers were conducting scheduled bed-checks when they found two inmates unresponsive.

The Jackson County Sheriff has named temporary replacements after the Jail Director resigned.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday, a spokesperson for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said corrections officers found two unresponsive inmates inside a housing unit at the detention center.

A 34-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, man was charged Monday by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office in connection with a March 2023 homicide in Kansas City, Missouri.