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Sheriff Deliberately Indifferent to Detainee Suicide Risk

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Bennett County,
South Dakota, Sheriff Russell Waterbury was deliberately indifferent to
the known suicide risk of a jail detainee.

In October, 2001, Bill Turney was arrested on an outstanding warrant and
lodged in the Bennett County Jail. He later became violent and

 

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