45. Supervision.

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U.S. District Court STAFFING LEVELS

Rapier v. Kankakee County, Ill., 203 F.Supp.2d 978 (C.D.Ill. 2002). The wife of a detainee who committed suicide while in jail filed a [section] 1983 suit individually, and as the special administrator of the detainee's estate. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, finding that the county was not liable for alleged deliberate indifference toward the prevention of suicide by detainees. The court found that the county's policy of placing potentially suicidal detainees in a special needs cell, along with its policy to require checks of these inmates every 15 minutes, was an effective way to prevent suicides. The court also found that the county's failure to adequately deal...