DENVER — A man who gouged out his own eye while in jail is suing Rio Grande County saying jailers failed to adequately protect him from himself. The Denver Post reports (dpo.st/2gSxfFU) Gordon Sawyers' lawsuit alleges that while he was under suicide watch — which calls for cell checks every 15 minutes — no one checked on him for three hours one night in early December, during which he gouged out his right eye. Sawyers had been arrested on Nov.