Jail Suicide: Failure to Monitor Is Not Deliberate Indifference
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 17, Number 01, May/June 2015 , pp.5-6(2)
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Abstract:
Custodial suicide prompts the review of an officer's conduct after an inmate on suicide watch manages to hang himself despite being changed into a suicide smock and given two suicide resistant blankets.Keywords: Bame v. Iron County, Utah , 2014 WL 1887605; monitoring log; maximum time between surveillance; conscious disregard of risk
Affiliations:
1: Executive Editor.