Jails - suicide - Keep on Person drug policy

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Chuck Thompson
Mon, May 4, 2020 7:32 PM

Good decision from the 6th Circuit involving a jail's policy to allow inmates to keep on person certain drugs needed for their health but which in this case allowed the inmate to overdose. https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0135p-06.pdf

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