Marion and Linn counties investigating suicides at each other’s jails

Thomas Denn (Courtesy of the family of Thomas Denn)

Officials from Linn and Marion counties are investigating suicides at each other’s jails, raising questions about whether the investigations can be done objectively.

In early April, within four days and 25 miles of each other, inmates Thomas Denn and Joseph Hadley died of apparent suicides. Denn, 31, was an inmate at Marion County Jail, while Hadley, 46, was jailed in Linn County.

State law requires district…