Allen Frake, in His Capacity as Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Frake v. The City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation

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• explaining that a jail is not necessarily liable for a detainee’s suicide, even if it could have designed cells differently to decrease the risk of suicide
• explaining that a jail is not necessarily liable for a detainee’s suicide, even if it could have designed cells differently to decrease the risk of suicide
• stating that a finding of deliberate indifference requires a showing that policymakers “were aware of a substantial risk” of a constitutional violation and “failed to take appropriate steps to protect [plaintiffs] from a known danger”
• finding no deliberate indifference in part because City took “many precautions” to prevent constitutional deprivations, even though deprivations continued to occur
• “The existence or possibility of other better policies which might have been used does not necessarily mean that the defendant was being deliberately indifferent.”
• “A 8 No. 06-2572 plaintiff must show that municipal policymakers made a deliberate choice among various alternatives and that the injury was caused by the policy.”

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