By C1 Staff
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A former Mahoning County Jail inmate is suing the facility after he was injured during a second suicide attempt.
WFMJ reports that Jeffrey Paul Ingram, 28, claims that county officials failed to adequately protect him when he attempted to commit suicide a second time by leaning from a railing at the top floor of the jail pod until he fell to the floor of the recreation area below.
This followed his initial attempt to take his own life by hanging himself in his cell with a bed sheet. He was placed on suicide watch until a jail doctor discharged him into the general population a day later.
Ingram suffered several fractures to his back, as well as catastrophic injury and paralysis, after the fall.
The suit seeks a trial by jury and is asking for unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.
Imgram was serving 180 days in jail for a theft conviction.