County jail officials don't want a repeat of last year.

After five years without a suicide, three people killed themselves in 2008 inside the Jennifer Road Detention Center in Parole.

"There wasn't a person in this facility who wasn't deeply troubled by those suicides," said Superintendent Robin Harting, who heads the county's detention facilities.

That, she said, is why she enlisted the help of the National Institute of Corrections last July to figure out how to better identify suicidal inmates and hopefully protect them from themselves.

And, she added, that's why her staff has spent the past three months...