By Tim Potter
The Wichita Eagle
SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. — Relatives of a man who hanged himself with his bedsheet at the Sedgwick County Jail have filed a wrongful death claim against Sheriff Robert Hinshaw for $250,000 in damages.
The sheriff and Sedgwick County government could be facing other similar claims. Another attorney told The Eagle that he expects to file claims over other inmate suicides or attempted suicides at the jail.
A notice of claim in the May 24 death of Jonathan Haehn, an initial step in filing a lawsuit, alleges that jail staff never put him on a suicide watch or removed his bedding and clothing although his girlfriend and sister had called the jail “warning that Mr. Haehn was at risk of killing himself.”
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