The Tarrant County sheriff’s office on Thursday announced its second in-custody death of 2025. A 56-year-old inmate died Tuesday while under medical care at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to a Thursday news release. The individual was identified as Kimberly Phillips, according to records from the Tarrant medical examiner’s office.

A 56-year-old woman who was in the custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office died Tuesday at a county hospital. According to the sheriff’s office, the inmate died while under medical care at John Peter Smith Hospital and,

A Tarrant County jail inmate died Wednesday, days after being transported to a hospital, officials say. According to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, the man was arrested by Grand Prairie police on Jan.

Kimberly Phillips, who was identified by the medical examiner’s office, was under medical observation while at the Tarrant County Jail, according to the release. She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital on Feb. 15 and died three days later “under the direct care of the medical staff,” the release states.

Inmate deaths in Tarrant County are investigated by Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office jail staff, the TCSO Criminal Investigations Division, an outside law enforcement agency, JPS medical staff, The Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff's office, the 36-year-old was booked into the jail on Feb. 4 and died at John Peter Smith Hospital on Feb. 8 "following complications from an attempted suicide."

A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony Johnson Jr., who was killed at the county jail in April, according to the ruling issued Friday. In addition to the county, Judge Reed O’Connor dismissed six individual defendants named in the original case, the order states.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor dismissed claims against Tarrant County and six of the named jailers earlier this month, but the family want the county back on the suit.

A judge dismissed Tarrant County and six other defendants from a civil suit over the death of an inmate at the Tarrant County Jail.