Deputy Reech, the senior deputy on duty during Jacobs’s detention, was aware of her suicide risk and the inadequacies of the detox cell, including a blind spot and tie-off points. Despite this knowledge, he placed Jacobs in the cell and failed to remove the sheet she used to hang herself. His disregard for necessary precautions led to a finding of subjective deliberate indifference, and his conduct was deemed objectively unreasonable, resulting in the denial of qualified immunity.
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