News Photo by Mike Gonzalez Laura Hoffman, spiritual care manager at MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena, leads an honor walk for Outhmen Joe Ghanie to the operation room on Friday afternoon at the hospital.

ALPENA — Outhmen Joe Ghanie, the man who hung himself at the Presque Isle County Jail last week, died on Friday at the Alpena hospital after his family decided to take him off life support.

Ghanie’s family said Friday as hospital staff honored Ghanie for donating his organs that jail staff neglected Ghanie’s suicidal tendencies, claiming last week’s hanging was Ghanie’s third suicide attempt at the jail.

“He’s still not on suicide watch and he hangs himself,” Cassie Haske, the mother of Ghanie’s newborn son, told The News on Friday at the hospital. “It was the same jail three times.”

Presque Isle County Sheriff Joseph Brewbaker said he had no comments on the hanging but said an investigation into the matter will start on Monday.

Monica Fulse, Ghanie’s sister and next of kin, said authorities did not reach out to her until two days after the hanging.

“I feel like Presque Isle County Jail went about it in a neglectful manner,” Fulse said.

Ghanie was at the jail after being charged with one count of third-degree home invasion and two counts of breaking and entering on Sept. 7. That case was ongoing in Presque Isle County’s 53rd Circuit Court.

Online court documents show Ghanie received an order for medical furlough on March 26.

Meanwhile, MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena staff and family members on Friday celebrated Ghanie for donating his organs, leading what the hospital calls an “honor walk” through hospital hallways.

Hospital staff and family lined the halls of the hospital and said their farewells as Ghanie was moved to the operating room for organ donation.

Ghanie had been on life support following the incident at the jail.

Honor walks — a collaboration between MyMichigan Health, the Midland-based owner of the Alpena hospital, and Gift of Life Michigan, an organ and tissue donation organization — allow families, hospital staff, and others to say farewell and offer thanks to a dying organ donor.

Laura Hoffman, spiritual care manager at MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena, said Ghanie’s was the fourth honor walk at the hospital in nearly three years.

Ghanie’s family, along with Hoffman, raised the Gift of Life flag in front of the hospital because April is Donor Awareness Month.

“Joey had a good heart and he loved really deep,” Haske said. “He had demons that got the best of him, and we don’t think he wanted to leave his family or his son.”