Vinson v. Clarke County, Ala.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Georgia law “enactment of jail policies and the training and supervision of employees are clearly discretionary acts.”
• “It is the sheriff who is responsible for the care of inmates and the charge of the jail.”
• failure of prison personnel to take steps to prevent inmate from committing suicide in the face of actual decision, which applied an objective mental-state standard to a pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment claim, is limited to the excessive force context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).