A five-layer investigation is underway after the Monroe County Jail experienced its 3rd suicide in 12 months. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says a guard making rounds at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday found an inmate hanging by a bed sheet from the cell bars. The inmate’s name has not been released. Deputies and emergency medical […]
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is beginning a pair of medical-based drug treatment programs in the county jail beginning next week. The Medication-Assisted Treatment Units are funded by a more than a quarter-of-a-million- dollar grant from the University of Baltimore, one for male and one for female inmates. They’re for treatment of opioid addiction, […]
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says jail deputies found an inmate who had hanged herself from a bed sheet Tuesday afternoon. Deputies performed CPR on the inmate until Medical techs arrived and took over. They were able to restore the woman’s pulse and she was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital, but later died. […]