Carbon County’s top prison official said that a death of a person in custody at the facility is always a hard thing for everyone.

On Tuesday, Warden James Youngkin addressed a wrongful-death lawsuit that was filed against several corrections officers at the Carbon County Correctional Facility last month.

“A death while in custody is a traumatic experience for the inmates, inmate’s family, and jail staff,” he said.

The family of Alexandria Frable, who committed suicide in the correctional facility on Jan. 2, 2022, filed the wrongful death lawsuit on Dec. 18 in U.S. Middle District Court.

According to reports, Frable’s parents, Harvey and Mary Frable, allege that prison staff made no attempts to ensure Alexandria didn’t act on her suicidal thoughts.

Grace Harris and Jonathan Feinberg, Philadelphia-based attorneys state that the “defendants were aware she was at risk of suicide given the combination of her mental health history, her psychiatric diagnoses, her estrangement from her family, her lack of a permanent address, her admission to prison during the holiday season, and her condition of detoxing from opioids upon intake.”

“Despite that knowledge, defendants conducted no adequate mental health or suicide risk assessment, and, as a result, took no action to implement needed precautions to protect Ms. Frable,” the complaint states.

The Frable’s attorneys state that Alexandria was found dead in the bathroom at the correctional facility three days after her admission to the facility and that no corrections officer checked on her even though she was in the bathroom for three hours before being found.

Youngkin said that the county attorneys are handling the case, adding that he feels for everyone involved.

“I’ve been doing this for 37 years and they’re (deaths of inmates) never easy,” he said. “It’s hard on everybody.”