Is there a constitutional right to be free from deliberate indifference to an inmate's serious risk of suicide?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Wright v. Dunne, No. 2-15-cv-02671-TLN-CKD (E.D. Cal. 2020):

Plaintiffs respond that the alleged constitutional right at issue is the right to be free from deliberate indifference to an inmate's serious risk of suicide, which was clearly established at the time of decedent's death. They point to NeSmith v. County of San Diego, No. 15CV629 JLS (JMA), 2016 WL 4515857 at *6 (S.D. Cal. 2016), which draws a distinction between "an individual being deliberately indifferent to the suicidal ideations of a particular inmate and a government entity acting with deliberate indifference toward potential inmate suicides on a policy level." Id.

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