@article{ref1,
title="What is obvious? Federal courts' interpretation of the knowledge requirement in post-Farmer v. Brennan custodial suicide cases",
journal="Prison journal",
year="2015",
author="Tartaro, Christine",
volume="95",
number="1",
pages="23-42",
abstract="The Supreme Court ruling on Farmer v. Brennan established the federal court standard for determining when corrections staff members should be held legally responsible for inmates' injuries resulting from inmate-inmate violence or self-harm. Legal scholars lamented that requiring plaintiffs to prove deliberate indifference placed a heavy burden on plaintiffs. Two slightly encouraging signs appeared to be Farmer's end to the &quot;individual-specific&quot; rule and the decision that courts had the option of ruling that the threat of harm was too obvious for the defendants to ignore. This article involves a review of post-Farmer custodial suicide cases and the impact that these two aspects of the Farmer decision has had on these cases.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0032-8855",
doi="10.1177/0032885514563269",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032885514563269"
}