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Jail Inmates Entitled to Safe Cells
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 2
Jail Inmates Entitled To Safe Cells
Filed under:
Municipal Liability,
Premises Liability,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Michigan.
Two prisoners at the Birmingham, Alabama, jail committed suicide and their estates filed suit claiming violations of the detainees' eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. Both men hanged themselves with bed sheets hung from an iron bar across their cell window. In a two year ...
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