A man is dead after apparently hanging himself in the Sawyer County Jail on Tuesday evening.
According to the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department, jailers found the man hanging from a sheet in his cell about 8:21 p.m., about 35 minutes after a routine cell check.
Sheriff's Department employees cut the man down and began CPR. He was taken to Hayward Area Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The man, 27, was being held in the jail on a state probation hold. He was originally convicted of burglary in June 2005. His name is being withheld pending notification of family.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Department will investigate the death.
