Estate of Sisk v. Manzanares.

• Position: FAILURE TO PROTECT - Deliberate indifference to the prisoner's medical needs, violation of civil rights - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

PRISONER SUICIDE

Estate of Sisk v. Manzanares, 262 F.Supp.2d 1162 (D.Kan. 2002). The estate and survivors of a deceased prisoner brought a civil rights action against a county corrections department, alleging deliberate indifference to the prisoner's medical needs. The district court held that summary judgment was precluded by a fact issue as to whether corrections officers were deliberately indifferent to the substantial risk that the inmate would commit suicide. The...