KEARNY -- A 48-year-old woman has died while serving a 180-day sentence at the Hudson County jail, officials said.

Jennifer Towle died at about 2 a.m. on Friday at the jail's infirmary, Hudson County spokesman Jim Kennelly said.

Towle was serving a six-month sentence for a DWI charge out of Weehawken Municipal Court, the spokesman said. Sources told The Jersey Journal Towle was near the end of her sentence at the time of her death.

An autopsy is pending and Kennelly said no additional information will be made available until results are released, which he expects will take between 30 and 45 days. A state spokesman declined to comment on the pending autopsy.

Towle's death comes as the county jail faces scrutiny for medical services it provides to inmates. Last month an immigrant detainee died from "gastrointestinal bleeding."

Advocates called 35-year-old Rolando Meza Espinoza's June 10 death "avoidable" while urging for a fully independent review board.

Hudson County Freeholder Bill O'Dea, who sits on ad hoc committee appointed to review Espinoza's death, declined to comment on Towle's death. He told The Jersey Journal on Monday after learning of the death he called for the review board to meet on Tuesday afternoon.

The Weehawken Municipal Court has not yet released the details of Towle's case or arrest.

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