Sheriff: Inmate attempts suicide

In the article "Inmate attempts suicide" an inmate in the Batesville County Jail a man named Derrick Hicks age only of 31 tried to kill himself. He had cuts that he had put on himself on his left wrist, left ankle, and right knee. But the jailers could not find the object he used to harm his self. My best friend committed suicide a little bit over a year ago and I am glad that this man didn't successfully do that to him self because I know when your in "that state of mind" you don't think anyone would care or miss you, but many people would. I think that the author did a very good job on fullfilling his or her purpose in this article. Filling the town of Batesville in on the news. The only thing that I would have liked to know more about was what kind of condition he was in. The article stated "At press time today a patient update from WRMC was not available on Hicks condition". I guess the author did as much as he was capable of. But in this article the author said "Jailers told Darr that around 9:55 p.m. cellmates of Hicks started yelling for help and when a jailer arrived he found the bleeding Hicks and gave a radio alert of man down". "I spoke with both inmates who stated they were sitting at the door watching TV from the food service hole(bean hole) and didn't see Hicks cut himself until after it was done." I don't understand why they didn't search the other inmates for weapons, or investigated them a little bit more to see if they had anything to do with the harm of Hicks, because in the last part of the article Hicks said "He did not remember doing this to himself". Darr asked Hicks if he had ever attempted suicde in the past and he stated "yes, while being stationed in Germany." Maybe Hicks inmates harmed him, or maybe, the fears of him being in Iraq or being stationed in Germany came back to him while he was sleeping.