Jason Shaw
Jason Shaw, 44, was held at the Columbia County Jail in St. Helens, Oregon, in December 2016. The sheriff's office said a deputy found him hanging with a bed sheet in his holding pod while delivering medicine, and that the deputy and a nurse rushed to help before emergency services took him to a Portland hospital, where he died the next morning. A jail spokesperson said he had been treated for withdrawal symptoms and had denied suicidal thoughts. A 2019 report described his death as one of two suicide attempts at the jail that day, and the sheriff's office said it is investigating.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). The sheriff's office says Jason Shaw was found hanging in his holding pod during a check and died at a Portland hospital; a jail spokesperson said he had been treated for withdrawal and denied suicidal thoughts, and the office is investigating.
Reported by: Columbia County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.