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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia jail under federal investigation over the care of inmates who've died there is facing fresh scrutiny after a prisoner hanged himself with his bedsheets over the weekend.

Jakim Funderburk, 20, died early Sunday morning, three months after entering the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth. He suffered from depression and had attempted suicide in December at a jail in nearby Chesapeake, officials said.

Funderburk's family said Monday that the facility should have prevented his hanging. And a local chapter of the NAACP said the jail has now failed three inmat...