The family of an inmate found dead in the Pascagoula City Jail said they have too many unanswered questions and conflicting stories about the teenager's death to simply accept it as a suicide, especially when they know in their hearts that he would not kill himself.
 
 The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is joining the family of Robert James Smith to investigate what happened in the moments preceding his death while he was an inmate at the jail. Smith was found dead in his cell on May 18.

 The Pascagoula Police De-partment reported that a jailer found Smith about 11:47 a.m. sitting on the floor of his cell, with a blanket tied around his neck like a noose. The other end of the blanket was tied to a bar on the top bunk of the cell bed. Police said an officer last spoke to Smith at 11:25 a.m.

 Police said Smith was unresponsive and was transported to Singing River Hospital, where he later died.

 Smith, 18, of Moss Point, was arrested May 16 and charged with two counts of burglary.

 "There are just some unanswered questions we'd like to get to," Nsombi Lambright, an attorney with the ACLU of Mississippi, said at a press conference Tuesday at the Pass Point Social Club in Pascagoula.

 Curley Clark, president of the Moss Point-Jackson County NAACP, said that the agencies will be requesting the death certificate, autopsy report and "anything that can provide factual information about the death."

 In 2006, the agency also aided the families of two men, Jessie Lee Hubbard and Billy Ray Evans, who were found dead in Moss Point City Jail. Both of those deaths were ruled suicide, but the NAACP presented reports that showed wounds consistent with choke holds.