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· 5/8/2024

Harrell v. Friend

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the right to be free from deliberate indifference to suicide “was clearly established in 2009 as it was in 1998”
  • holding that a nurse acted with deliberate indifference even though she referred an inmate to another medical unit and noted that the inmate should be taking psychiatric medication
  • “This Court has stated in numerous cases that, ‘suicide is a serious harm.’”
  • defendants knew about prisoner's \history of self harm and suicide attempts\
  • history of self-harm and suicide attempts

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