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Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk
Loaded on June 6, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2014, page 52
Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk
On August 12, 2013, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jail social worker could be held liable for ignoring a detainee’s obvious risk of committing suicide.
Algerian citizen Hassiba Belbachir, 27, entered the United States …
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