Tulsa County Jail: Inmate Dead From Apparent Drug Overdose

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TULSA, OK -- The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office says an inmate at the county jail was pronounced dead at the jail Wednesday morning.

In a news release, TCSO says 26-year-old Bess Morgan Winfrey-Woodruff was pronounced dead from what was believed to be a drug overdose.

The sheriff's office says Winfrey-Woodruff was booked into the jail Tuesday night.

After being placed into the open dormitory style female unit at the jail, a nurse found Winfrey-Woodruff unresponsive.

The release says an initial investigation produced evidence that Winfrey-Woodruff had internally smuggled in prescription narcotics.

Witnesses told jail staff, that shortly after Winfrey-Woodruff arrived she produced a quantity of pills and began ingesting some of them.

Winfrey-Woodruff was booked into the jail after surrendering to a deputy on a complaint of an application to revoke and a city of Tulsa municipal warrant for not wearing a seatbelt.