UPDATED Thursday, July 9, 2009 --- 4:30 p.m.

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- The family of a prisoner who died in the Outagamie County Jail has filed a lawsuit against the county claiming negligence caused the death.

Twenty-six-year-old Curtis Heino was found dead in his cell Jan. 13, 2008, and an autopsy found he died of pneumonia.

The lawsuit filed this week contends jail staff ignored Heino's medical complaints and diagnosed his symptoms as a head cold, even when his condition kept getting worse.

Heino had been jailed since April 2007 and was due for release in April 2008.

The county has 20 days to file its response.

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Updated Tuesday --- January 15, 2008 --- 11:18am

State to review prisoner death in Outagamie County Jail

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Department of Corrections will review the death of a prisoner in the Outagamie County Jail over the weekend.

Sheriff Brad Gehring says 27-year-old Curtis Heino of Appleton was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning, and he died at a hospital after attempts to revive him failed.

Coroner Ruth Wulgaert says an autopsy Monday found the death appeared to be medically related, pending lab results that could take up to 12 weeks.

Sheriff's Captain David Kiesner is the jail administrator. He says the Department of Corrections will review all of the documentation in the death.

The sheriff says Heino had been seen by the medical staff, but the sheriff said he had been advised not to elaborate on that subject. Heino's fiancee said he had bipolar disease and fibromyalgia.

Gehring says a surveillance video showed Heino moving in his cell to take his medication and to eat breakfast Sunday morning.

He had been in the jail since April 2007 and was due for release in April.

AP