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Deputies intervened after an inmate cut his arm in a suicide attempt Wednesday morning at the Dane County Jail in the City-County Building, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office reported.

At about 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, responded to a cellblock on the sixth floor of the City-County Building after a 31-year-old man had intentionally cut his arms with a jail-issued razor, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Elise Schaffer said in a statement.

Deputies applied a tourniquet and the inmate was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with “significant” injuries, Schaffer said.

It is standard practice for residents who wish to shave to be issued a disposable razor for a short period at the start of each day, and due to the City-County Building jail layout, deputies are not able to have direct sight lines of the individuals they are supervising, Schaffer said.

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett views detention cells inside the 1950’s-era section of the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett shows visitors to the Dane County Jail one of the facility’s medical detention cells in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett is reflected in a mirror inside a 1950’s-era elevator at the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Dane County Jail personnel work inside a secured workspace at the facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Renderings of a proposed new Dane County Jail are displayed on a wall inside the county’s current facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Inmates engage in a lunch hour game of chess inside a group detention area at the Dane County Jail. The jail has few places to isolate inmates from each other, creating significant health risks for those incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. An outbreak in the jail in November resulted in 120 COVID-19 cases among inmates through the end of December.

Incoming inmates are processed at the jail. The number of people taken to jail dropped considerably during the pandemic as police arrested fewer people and the state Department of Corrections became more relaxed in how it handled probation and parole violations. 

Jail personnel monitor activity inside the Dane County Jail on an array of closed-circuit television screens.

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett checks an empty isolation cell at the Dane County Jail. The jail population plummeted during the pandemic after several reforms were hastily implemented. Only some of those changes are expected to continue, prompting fears of a jump in the population.

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett says one of his top priorities is keeping the jail population low, but he acknowledges not all of the pandemic-era changes are going to be sustainable.

A detention cell at the Dane County Jail is sanitized with an ultraviolet cleaning device at the facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

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