SOUTH BEND, Ind. (ADAMS) – The Indiana State Police are handling the investigation into a prisoner’s death in the St. Joseph County Jail.
Guards found the female inmate unresponsive in her cell yesterday morning. She was pronounced dead a short time later.
No one is offering any specifics about how she died. An autopsy is scheduled for later today.
ISP officials released the following:
he Indiana State Police has been requested to investigate the death of an inmate at the St. Joseph County Jail. The Indiana State Police were contacted Thursday morning, July 14, 2022, after jail staff found the inmate unresponsive.
Jail staff found the female inmate alone and unresponsive in her cell in the medical unit at approximately 8:30 a.m. Life-saving measures were conducted by jail and medical staff until emergency medical technicians arrived. The female inmate was pronounced deceased at the jail.
An autopsy is scheduled to be completed tomorrow, July 15, 2022, at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, MI.
**Update**
The deceased inmate has been identified as Christine Dezenzo, 49 of Elkhart, IN. Dezenzo was booked into the St. Joseph County Jail on July 13, 2022 at 12:28 p.m. Family of Dezenzo has been notified.
This investigation is ongoing.
