{"id":2268,"date":"2016-07-07T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/woman-in-state-jail-custody-dies-at-anchorage-hospital\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:02:15","slug":"woman-in-state-jail-custody-dies-at-anchorage-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/woman-in-state-jail-custody-dies-at-anchorage-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in state jail custody dies at Anchorage hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 48-year-old woman arrested Monday on a municipal driving-while-intoxicated charge died Wednesday while in custody of the state Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n

The department said Laurel Christine Hunter died just after 3 a.m. at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

Hunter told corrections officials within a day of her booking that she had an acute medical condition. She was housed in a single cell so she could be observed by medical and security staff.<\/p>\n

The department said she was found unresponsive in the cell just before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and taken to the hospital. She died about 45 minutes after she was discovered unresponsive.<\/p>\n

Hunter is the sixth person to die in custody this year.<\/p>\n

The death will be reviewed by Alaska State Troopers and the state medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 48-year-old woman arrested Monday on a municipal driving-while-intoxicated charge died Wednesday while in custody of the state Department of Corrections. The department said Laurel Christine Hunter died just after 3 a.m. at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. Hunter told corrections officials within a day of her booking that she had an acute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}