A 55-year-old man in custody at the Harris County Jail died at St. Joseph Hospital Wednesday after experiencing a medical emergency.

The man, whose identity is being withheld in accordance with medical privacy laws, had been in the hospital since Tuesday, after he began displaying symptoms while housed in the 1200 Baker Street jail facility.

Multiple agencies are investigating after an inmate died at the Montgomery County Jail on Tuesday.

The sheriff’s office said it happened early Tuesday morning. The office says Alexis Jovany Cardenas was released from custody at 12:50 a.m. and was being escorted to an exit door when he physically resisted detention officers as they attempted to walk him outside the building.

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Another inmate has died at the Harris County Jail this year, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

A man who died Tuesday after being rushed by ambulance to the hospital from the Harris County Jail, will not be labeled an “in-custody death” because the man was technically released from the jail before he died.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said they are now up to six inmates who have died while in custody at the Harris County Jail this year. Ongoing questions are swirling about how this keeps happening again, and again, and again.

An inmate has been reported dead after apparently suffering from a medical emergency in the Harris County Jail earlier this month.

A Harris County Jail inmate died Sunday at Ben Taub Hospital after being involved in a physical altercation with another inmate late Friday evening, the sheriff’s office said Monday.