Butler County jail inmate dies

A prisoner who was found unresponsive this morning in a Butler County jail has died.

At about 8 a.m., a corrections officer at Resolutions Jail on Second Street found Billy Hall, 31, unresponsive, according to Sheriff Richard Jones. Hall was transported by Hamilton emergency crews to Fort Hamilton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Hall was being held on charges out of Hamilton County. He had been in the jail for about two weeks.

Butler County sheriff’s detectives and the county coroner’s office are investigating. The cause of death has not yet been determined.

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