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Abstract: 

When a penal facility has custody of an individual, the staff owe that person at least minimally safe conditions. Safeguarding life itself is a constitutional obligation and a minimum human rights obligation. In this article, we examine the facts and ruling in Herriges v. Co. of Macomb (Mich.), 2020 WL 3498095 (E.D. Mich.),. In the suit, Judge David Lawson deals with the suicide of one Dieter Herriges-Love. Judge Lawson begins his Opinion writing, “On July 26, 2017, Dieter Herriges-Love joined the grizzly ranks of Macomb Co. Michigan jail inmates who took their own lives while under the less-than watchful eyes of their jailers. In the previous sixteen years, twenty-one souls preceded him.”

Keywords: Herriges v. Co. of Macomb

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