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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
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 ...
Filed under:
Medical,
Appendicitis,
Food,
Qualified Immunity,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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