A 32-year-old Saline County Jail inmate is back in jail after being treated at the hospital after attempting suicide early Wednesday morning.

Saline Count Sheriff Glen Kochanowski says other maximum security inmates alerted corrections officers that something was wrong around 5:30 am with the inmate.

They found the inmate, who name is not being released, face down in a pool of blood after cutting his left wrist 4 times with a piece of metal he allegedly pulled off from underneath some stairs in the jail pod.

The inmate also said he flushed the metal down the toilet.

Kochanowski said the inmate is jail on numerous drug charges, criminal threats, and violation of protect from abuse orders. He had bonded out of jail once, but was returned to jail on December 12th.

The inmate is now on a suicide watch.