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when he delivered the night meal. He was not informed that Vaughn had actually requested a transfer from the K Module to the SHM. Eve Kendall, the DOC's Intelligence and Examination Manager, talked to Turpin, who said Vaughn was pushing his bed throughout the majority of his shift that day. Turpin said that at about 6:20 p.

Turpin replied he would look for out and he would also talk to a supervisor to authorize a phone call for Vaughn. At around Source :04 p. m., Rhone discovered Vaughn hanging from a bed sheet that was secured to the air consumption grate in his cell. Vaughn was dead.

Rhone and Turpin were disciplined for missing their set up observations and for falsifying log entries. Gillespie had been the DOC's director because August 2000. The DOC had a no tolerance for inmate suicides. When she started her tenure, she analyzed the suicide avoidance policies at the prison and set up a number of changes.

Thomas White, an expert in suicide prevention in January 2001, who made sure recommendations for the prison's suicide avoidance policy. Changes included changing suicide watch checks from every 15 minutes to every 4 minutes, identifying and evaluating risk consider prisoners, developing the close observation status, and taking a look at the various approaches by which prisoners can commit suicide.

The DOC had inmate suicides in 2001, 2002, and then Vaughn in 2003. The inmate suicide in 2001 similarly utilized the air vent to help in the suicide. Prior to Vaughn's suicide, Gillespie had chosen that the greater priority for suicide avoidance was proper screening and supervision of inmates rather than physical changes to the facility.

Vaughn's mom, Sharon, testified she understood Vaughn was self-destructive. He had actually spoken about taking his life in front of her and had actually made such remarks within a year prior to his death. Dr. Victor Lofgreen believed that Vaughn exhibited normal self-destructive tendencies consisting of being violent, intoxication, and unreasonable habits. He said Vaughn's habits of not bailing himself out with the cash in his pocket was quite irrational.