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Jail Suicide Claims Dismissed: Risk Analysis  


Author:  Fred  Cohen .


Source: Volume 14, Number 06, March/April 2013 , pp.81-82(2)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

A detainee dies of self-inflicted asphyxiation when a series of precautionary suicide watches are removed and he is allowed out of his cell to make an unobserved phone call using a telephone with a potentially lethal cord.

Keywords: Galloway v. Swanson, 2012 WL 646074; paranoid schizophrenia; bipolar

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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