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Troubled Juvenile’s Suicide in Custody: No Liability for Hanging from Bunk Bed  


Author:  Fred Cohen .


Source: Volume 15, Number 03, September/October 2013 , pp.39-39(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

St. Charles’s decision to house a 16-year-old with a long and in-depth history of mental problems, drug abuse, and suicide attempts in a room with a bunk bed, where he was found hanging, when single beds were available comes into question given similiar incidences in the past.

Keywords: Miller v. Harbaugh

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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