A 31-year-old woman died while in custody at a Redwood City jail on Monday, authorities said.

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that guards at the Maple Street Correctional Center were notified at about 6 a.m. that an inmate was having what appeared to be a medical emergency in a housing unit at the facility. The facility houses pre-trial and court-sentenced female and male inmates, and also includes a transitional housing unit for minimum-security inmates.

The unit the woman was housed in received a routine safety check a short time prior to her being discovered in distress, the Sheriff's Office said. Jail personnel began lifesaving measures on the woman until medical staff stationed inside the facility arrived, along with outside medics dispatched to the f

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