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Prison Guards Can Be Liable for Prisoner Suicide

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News November, 2002, page 26
Filed under: Medical, Appendicitis, Food, Qualified Immunity, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: Wisconsin.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded the dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit against Wisconsin prison officials. In so ruling, the court held that prison guards can be held liable under Eighth Amendment "deliberate indifference" claims for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent the …

 

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