{"id":32213,"date":"2023-08-18T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/inmate-dies-at-la-plata-county-jail\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:54:24","slug":"inmate-dies-at-la-plata-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/inmate-dies-at-la-plata-county-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate dies at La Plata County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b29aa155-71be-4328-ad1b-a2f5f4a84a13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" alt=\"The La Plata County jail has housed inmates from Archuleta County for more than two years. Archuleta County has &lt;a href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/173100&amp;quot;&gt;paid La Plata County more than $250,000 annually since 2017&lt;\/a&gt; to house its inmates,\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The La Plata County jail has housed inmates from Archuleta County for more than two years. Archuleta County has &lt;a href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/173100&amp;quot;&gt;paid La Plata County more than $250,000 annually since 2017&lt;\/a&gt; to house its inmates,<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 32-year-old inmate at the La Plata County Jail died while in custody earlier this week, according to a news release from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The death was reported shortly after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the jail, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate was identified as Daniel John Foard, who had been staying at the jail since Aug. 11 on warrants, failure to appear and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, according to a jail supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said preliminary autopsy results indicate Foard had a ruptured ulcer that bled. She said toxicology reports are pending. Once she has those reports, she will declare a formal cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI, which is investigating the case, did not provide any additional information and did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-fa17c9815c1700092108a21c807a7364\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reportedly suffered a ruptured ulcer; CBI is investigating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,28,993,1024],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-la-plata-county-jail"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81716,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions\/81716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}