Pierce County sued over inmate suicide
TACOMA — The family of a man who hanged himself in the Pierce County Jail is suing the county.
In the lawsuit filed highest week in federal royal household in Tacoma, Ralph Close and Laura Larson of Clallam County say the Sheriff’session Office failed to protect their son from himself.
The suit says 30-year-old James Robert Close, of Sequim, had no extra supervision be it so the arresting officer recommended a suicide wait.
The Tacoma News Tribune reports Close had been arrested for investigation of have one’s account robbery.
Officers who booked him into jail wrote on the intake form that he had mental-health problems and had attempted suicide in the gone. A few hours later he was found in his cell hanging from a bed sheet.
