The parents of a Carbon County Prison inmate who took her own life in January 2022 have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the county and several prison employees.

Alexandria Frable, 27, of Jim Thorpe, was taken into custody on Dec. 30, 2021 after failing to appear at a pretrial conference related to misdemeanor drug charges. Several days later, Jan. 2, 2022, a fellow inmate found Frable dead in a bathroom.

The lawsuit, filed Dec. 18 in U.S. Middle District Court, names the county, registered nurse Mary Reinhart, correctional officers Joseph Yates, Donald Ebinger, Thomas Ebinger and B. Kandy. Several other correctional officers were identified only by last name; Taschler and Bartek. Five John Does, all correctional officers, were also listed.

Grace Harris and Jonathan Feinberg, Philadelphia-based attorneys for the Frable family, allege that from the moment Alexandria was admitted to the prison, “defendants were aware she was at risk of suicide given the combination of her mental health history, her psychiatric diagnoses, her estrangement from her family, her lack of a permanent address, her admission to prison during the holiday season, and her condition of detoxing from opioids upon intake.”

“Despite that knowledge, defendants conducted no adequate mental health or suicide risk assessment, and, as a result, took no action to implement needed precautions to protect Ms. Frable,” the complaint states.

According to the complaint, Frable went to the bathroom around 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2022.

“She remained there for three hours, and, during that entire time, no correctional officers working in the unit checked the bathroom or addressed Ms. Frable’s absence from her bed,” the complaint states.

Frable’s family is seeking “compensatory and punitive damages, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, and any other relief a court may deem appropriate.

Carbon County prison officials did not comment on the lawsuit as of deadline Tuesday.