California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Amador v. Cnty. of Riverside, E059663 (Cal. App. 2015):
"The general rule is that a jailer is not liable to a prisoner in his keeping for injuries resulting from the prisoner's own intentional conduct. [Citations.] Absent some possible special circumstances a jailer is under no duty to prevent the latter from taking his own life." (Lucas v. City of Long Beach (1976) 60 Cal.App.3d 341, 349 (Lucas).)
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