[USA] Civil Liability for Prisoner Suicide
2007 (2) AELE Mo. L. J. 301 Jail & Prisoner Law Section – February, 2007
http://www.aele.org/law/2007JBFEB/2007-02MLJ301.pdf
"Suicides by persons in custody, whether pre-trial detainees or convicted prisoners, and whether attempted or successful, is a troublesome and recurrent issue for jails and prisons. While it was once assumed by some that this was largely a question of suicide by pre-trial detainees in jail, recent studies have shown that, while the suicide rate is, indeed, much higher in jails than in prisons (approximately triple), the suicide rate in prisons is nevertheless much higher than in the general population."