WINONA, Minn. – A jailer making cell checks found an inmate who had taken a gauze bandage from a knee injury and wrapped it around hiss neck. The apparent suicide attempt was caught in time, said Sheriff Ron Ganrude. This was about 11 a.m. The inmate was taken to the hospital to be checked out, then returned to jail. The man had been incarcerated for fleeing in a motor vehicle.
Jail emergency. A fire unit, an ambulance and a sheriff’s squad car, all aglow with red flashers, rushed ro the Winona County jail after an inmate suicide attempt. Image: Steve Lunde