‘The system failed her’ – Questions remain following deadly year at the DeKalb County Jail

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May 24th, 2023

Matthew Wayne Colman holds a card he received from his sister Nina Maureen Colman on the spot next to his record player where he kept her remains for several months. Nina Colman died at the DeKalb County Jail on July 25, 2022. A celebration of life was held for Nina at Manuel’s Tavern in November. Their father, Harry Colman took Nina to her hometown of Waynesville, Virginia where she was buried next to her mother and grandmother. Colman wears a shirt he had made with Nina’s image. (Dean Hesse/ Decaturish)

Editor’s note: The subject of suicide is discussed several times in this story.

No one wanted to send Nina Colman to jail on July 19, 2022.

But no one knew what else to do with her, either.

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