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Suffolk County: a suicide-watch verdict
Statistical analysis showed people in disciplinary housing were more likely to be placed and kept on suicide watch after clinicians ordered release; the plaintiff remained longer than 96% of comparable inmates
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What the record says
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- Jurisdiction / date
- Suffolk County, New York (E.D.N.Y.)
- Channel
- 6 and 1
- Mechanism
- Jail suicide watch as discipline
- What is documented
- Statistical analysis showed people in disciplinary housing were more likely to be placed and kept on suicide watch after clinicians ordered release; the plaintiff remained longer than 96% of comparable inmates
- Finding or status
- JUDICIAL FINDING: jury found the jail confined him to suicide watch without justification, as punishment, violating the Fourteenth Amendment (NERA case summary)
- Limits
- Case name and docket to confirm
- Label
- VERIFIED (secondary); the first adjudicated finding in the record that a psychiatric placement itself was used as punishment
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Reference and provenance
2015-US-NY-SUFFOLK-WATCH