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Suicide-related litigation in jails and prisons: risk management strategies
1Daniel Correctional Psychiatric Services, Inc, and the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri 65203, USA. aedaniel@aol.com
Abstract:
Litigation related to suicide in jails and prisons is not an uncommon occurrence. This article summarizes the basic legal premises behind such litigations, which involve claims of medical malpractice and/or deliberate indifference. Common causes of omissions and commissions in correctional mental health care practice leading to such litigation are outlined. A few select court decisions are reviewed and, based on the author's experience, risk management strategies and procedures for clinicians and for correctional officers are provided.
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