Jail Suicides High in Cuyahoga County

(Cleveland) -- Suicide attempts at the Cuyahoga County jail are higher than originally reported. New numbers released by county officials say those numbers were misreported in a U.S. Marshals investigation of the facility that came out last year. The first report said there'd been 55 suicide attempts by inmates in the span of 12-months, but a county spokesperson says those numbers are wrong. They say that by the end of 2018 there'd been 69-attempts and four deaths by suicide. Eight inmates total died in the jail last year.

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