The Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office is hiring staff for an in-house medical and mental healthcare team that will be tasked with caring for inmates at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility.
Where a wrongful death complaint has been brought over the suicide of a pretrial detainee, the discretionary immunity statute does not bar liability on the part of the Bristol County Sheriff's Office. Accordingly, the office’s motion for summary judgment is denied. “The defendants, Thomas M. Hodgson, as Sheriff of Bristol County, in his official capacity
Former Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson (ASSOCATED PRESS) Civil rights attorneys and mental health advocates say a recent Superior Court decision allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office for its alleged failure to take reasonable steps to prevent a foreseeable inmate suicide should help make law enforcement entities more accountable for
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BARNSTABLE A medical malpractice tribunal determined there is enough evidence to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who hanged herself at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in 2017.
The tribunal ruled last week that there is “sufficient evidence to raise a legitimate question as to liability appropriate for judicial inquiry” for Correctional Psychiatric Services, the third-party vendor that was hired to handle mental health cases at the jail, and several of its employees, in the case filed by the estate of Jessica DiCesare.
DiCesare, a Centerville mother of two, died by suicide in 2017 at the jail in Buzzards Bay while she was awaiting a hearing on charges of receiving stolen property, driving uninsured and without a license and possession of class C and E drugs.