There’s something rotten at the Milwaukee County Jail.

In June last year, Brieon Green wrapped a phone cord around his neck twenty-eight minutes after being booked, strangling himself to death as an officer strolled past his cell. Six months later, Cilivea Thyrion swallowed pieces of an unused diaper, killing herself while on suicide watch. A month after that, Octaviano Juarez-Corro was found dead with a ligature around his neck, after the attending officer skipped checking his and several other cells. In another two months, Terrance Mack was found unresponsive in his cell, the night after telling his fiancée he was hurting. Between then and this past August, another two men died in custody at the jail, bringing the toll to six deaths in fourteen months.

“No other institutions have had that many deaths,” says Milwaukee County supervisor Ryan Clancy.