FLAUM, Chief Judge.
In August 1998 Luis Matos committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell at the Western Illinois Correctional Facility. Maria Matos, the deceased's sister and guardian of his estate, and Luis Matos's children (collectively "the Estate") brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Illinois state law, claiming that prison warden William O'Sullivan, correctional officer and crisis team member Amy Lipcaman, prison intake psychologist Charles...
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