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DEKALB COUNTY, GA – The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office of Professional Standards is investigating the death of an inmate housed at the DeKalb County Jail.
Jail officers discovered a medical emergency inside an inmate housing unit on this morning (Wednesday, Feb. 12), where they found 35-year-old Regis Darnell Jackson unresponsive. Emergency medical services were performed on site by jail, health services staff, and DeKalb EMS. Jackson was transported to Emory Decatur Hospital for further evaluation and treatment, where he was later pronounced deceased.
A Macon, Georgia resident, Jackson had been in custody since August 2022 on various felony charges.
The county medical examiner has not released a cause of death.