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stopped in Joffer's office, which is on the cell block and accessible to inmates when
they are out of their cells.

      Around, or shortly after 1:05 p.m. Joffer had Bouska paged to come to his office.
At approximately 1:12 p.m. Bouska's cellmate returned to the cell and found that
Bouska had hung himself. Bouska still had a faint pulse at this time. Emergency
medical personnel were called, but their efforts to save Bouska failed and he was
pronounced dead around 1:40 p.m.

       When he was initially transferred to SDSP on March 11, 1994, Bouska's health
screening form noted that he was currently being treated for depression, had been
hospitalized for it in February of 1994, and had recently contemplated suicide. It also
appearsphone call, Joffer pulled Bouska's file to determine what he
could tell Bouska about seeing his children, wrote a short report about the phone call,
and dealt with a few other prisoners who stopped into his office before trying to locate
Bouska. Had Joffer known of Bouska's previous history of suicidal ideation, and the
fact he had been on suicide watch for a few days, a quicker attempt to locate Bouska
may have been warranted. However, since the only indication of risk was one phone
call from Moran saying Bouska was going to kill himself, and that she wanted to assure
Bouska she would not prevent him from seeing his children, we cannot characterize
Joffer's subsequent actions as deliberately indifferent. They are at most negligent. See
Williams, 201 F.3d at 1065 (holding that even if instructions were