People in custody in county jails have a constitutional right to reasonable medical care and mental health care. If a jailer is deliberately indifferent to a person’s known suicidal tendencies, and the person commits suicide, the jailer, and possibly the county, can be liable to the person’s surviving spouse, parents, children, and/or heirs for violating the United States Constitution. These claims are brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.
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Dean Malone
Dean Malone
Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
Dean Malone