The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles and its Sheriff’s Department alleging that guards at the Twin Towers jail facility routinely perform slipshod checks of the cells of mentally ill inmates, resulting in what the Coroner’s Office declared to be the suicide of the plaintiff’s son who ingested more than three times a lethal dose of an antipsychotic prescription medication.
link to article: L.A. County Might Be Liable for Suicide of Unwatched Inmate (metnews.com)
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