. >> san antonio fire department paramedics arrive, guerra has begun to regain consciousness. >> he wasn his knees hanging forward? >> no, just hanging. >> guerra, talk to me! >> one, two, three! [ indiscernible ] >> although his vital signs are stabilizing guerra will still be taken to a nearby hospital for further treatment. quick action by correctional staff and medics most likely saved his life. but in the past the jail had been plagued by the specter of inmate suicides. it reached a peak three years earlier when there were five suicides in a 12-month period. >> it was a rash of suicides here at the facility. and the state took a look and decided that we needed to go to a more stringent type of monitoring system of all inmates. inmates had to be observed at a specific time frame. for example, inmates that were deemed mental by the psychological department, had to have an officer visually check on them every 15 minutes. on them every 15 minutes. we started sending all of our officers to suicide prevention classes. we would send them back through the academy. and we made it mandatory