BEULAH -- Benzie County jailers locked Edward Dale Baughman and other inmates into individual cells during a routine staff shift change.
An hour later, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, jailers opened the cells doors remotely, using an electronic door release. Baughman apparently didn't emerge, didn't join two other men in a common area within his unit.
At 4:30 p.m., a fellow inmate told jailers he found Baughman, 49, hanging by bedsheets in his one-person cell.
Benzie authorities are reviewing that two-hour window to determine how and why he died. Authorities said Baughman was not considered a suicide risk, and they have not determined whether his death was suicide.
"We're going to do a complete investigation," Benzie Undersheriff Bill Sholten said Saturday. "That may or may not call for a review of policy."
Corrections officers performed CPR and Baughman was taken to Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital in Frankfort, where he died shortly after 5:30 p.m., Sheriff Rory Heckman said.
Baughman had been an inmate since Aug. 16, when he was booked on a domestic incident, Heckman said. Authorities would not disclose the specific charge.
Baughman had served time on a probation violation and was in the process of securing bond when he died, Heckman said.
Family members declined to comment when contacted Saturday.
Inmates are screened for mental health conditions, Heckman said, and Baughman had not displayed suicidal tendencies.
He shared a living unit with two other inmates that contained a shower, a common area with a table and television and three individual cells where they slept, Sholten said.
The cells are lined in a row and each has a door and window, Sholten said, adding that Baughman's was the last in the row. Inmates are unable to see into another cell from their own.
Authorities said a lockdown began at 2:30 p.m. Friday so employees could change shifts. The order was lifted close to 3:30 p.m., at which time the cell doors were unlocked electronically.
"People are permitted to come out of their cells" into the common area, Sholten said. "Sometimes they don't."
He said inmates can enter each other's cells when the doors are unlocked.
The jail is equipped with video monitors, but no cameras are installed in individual cells such as the one Baughman occupied, Heckman said. During a lockdown, officers can be alerted to increased noise or an escalating situation, he added, but no such incident happened until after the order ended Friday.
Sholten said because of their proximity to the common area, Baughman's cellmates would not have needed to walk past his cell.
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