Gabby Chipps had been arrested and jailed for several weeks when she tried to take her own life by hanging in an isolation cell.
Private attorney Will Earnhart, hired to represent the Department of Corrections, left, and plaintiff’s counsel Eric Fong argue a point before Anchorage Superior Court Judge Una Gandbhir during a trial stemming from a 2020 suicide attempt by an inmate at Wildwood Correctional Facility in Kenai, on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.
: So I think within a year of the suicide attempt, her family filed a lawsuit, basically accusing the Department of Corrections of medical malpractice or negligence, essentially in caring for Gabby, and saying basically that they did not effectively diagnose or treat her mental health concerns, and that that allowed her, gave her the opening, to attempt suicide, which led to the permanently disabling injury.
Their real message was, you know, not all suicides can be predicted, and that the Department of Corrections acted within the scope of the standard of care that it is supposed to give inmates who have mental health issues in its prisons.
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