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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 19, 2025

After nearly a month in the hospital, an inmate at the Shelby County women’s jail, known as Jail East, has died, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed. Tiffany Dukes was taken to Regional One Hospital on Oct. 21 and died there Monday morning, the Commercial Appeal reports. The sheriff’s office said Dukes had spent five days in the hospital in early October but did not give a reason for her hospitalization. Dukes was booked Sept. 17 and charged with five counts of identity theft, theft of property and financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable person. The sheriff’s office is investigating her death, which is the latest in a series of in-custody deaths at county jails.