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Eleventh Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Jail Guards Who “Did Nothing” in Face of Florida Detainee’s Suicide Threats

Loaded on Aug. 1, 2022 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News August, 2022, page 40
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified. Location: Florida.

by David M. Reutter

Finding that two guards at Florida’s Bay County Jail (BCJ) did “essentially nothing to prevent” a pretrial detainee from committing suicide, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to them on February 15, 2022.

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