Suit filed over jail hanging

ROME - The family of a northwest Georgia woman who committed suicide at the Murray County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $12.5 million from Murray County Sheriff Howard Ensley and two deputies. <br> <br> Jennifer Dial, 25, of Crandall was found hanging from the shower rod of her cell on Aug. 17, 2000. She died three days later at a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. <br> <br> The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court claims the sheriff&#39;s office failed to recognize Dial&#39;s suicidal state after she was arrested on charges of simple battery and cruelty to children. <br> <br> They violated her civil rights by failing to put her in an observation cell, the lawsuit said.

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