McGuire v. Turnbo

DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:

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Shelia Moore, a federal inmate incarcerated for a narcotics offense, was placed in an Administrative Detention cell for suspicion of taking an unknown substance. Two hours later, she began screaming and threw a nightstand. The attending officer called the prison’s hospital for medical assistance. An ambulance took Moore to the hospital where she died the next day of an acute overdose of cocaine.

On December 6, 1991, Rochelle McGuire, Moore’s mother, sued the warden, Charles Turnbo, and other prison personnel for Moore’s wrongful death and under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named…