A Deschutes County jail inmate was hospitalized after she was found unresponsive Monday night.

The inmate attempted suicide at the jail and was still alive at the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon, said Bend Police Department spokeswoman Sheila Miller, who declined to identify the woman.

“Right now, we’re not releasing any information about the person or details about the attempted suicide,” Miller said.

A deputy sheriff and corrections nurse found the woman in a dormitory cell while distributing medication at approximately 8:30 p.m., according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

The release said that corrections staff performed “immediate lifesaving actions” and called medics from Bend Fire & Rescue. Miller said this call was placed at 8:35 p.m. Medics showed up five minutes later, followed by additional medics five minutes after that.

Emergency medical personnel transported the woman to St. Charles Bend for additional care.

Oregon State Police and the Central Oregon Major Incident Team are investigating the incident.

Bend Police declined to provide any information about why the woman was in the jail.

This is the second time since the beginning of the year that the jail has reported an emergency.

Six people reportedly experienced drug overdoses in the jail over four days starting on New Year’s Eve.

Five of these inmates overdosed in less than four hours after an inmate allegedly snuck suspected counterfeit fentanyl pills into the jail on New Year’s Eve and handed them out to other inmates.

All of the inmates survived after staffers responded to the overdoses with the lifesaving medication naloxone — a nasal spray used to halt an overdose — CPR and an automated external defibrillator, which is used to save people in cardiac arrest, the sheriff’s office reported at the time.

A 25-year-old inmate, Sean Robert McDonald, pleaded no contest in the Deschutes County Circuit Court on Feb. 3 to charges stemming from the incident, including manufacturing or delivering controlled substances and recklessly endangering another person, according to court records.

In December 2020, then Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel stated that a Bend man arrested and charged with drunken driving died by suicide after reportedly hanging himself by a towel wrapped to a bunk bed.

In 2018, a 31-year-old man who was suspected of killing a 24-year-old woman died by suicide after hanging himself in a jail shower, just days after he had tried to take his own life in the jail the first time, according to news reports.