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Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Conditions in Illinois Jail where Mentally Ill Prisoner Died
Loaded on April 15, 2013
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2013, page 26
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Conditions in Illinois Jail
Filed under:
CMS,
Sanitation,
Estoppell,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mental Health.
Location:
Illinois.
where Mentally Ill Prisoner Died
On March 20, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants in a case claiming inhumane conditions of confinement at a county jail; the ...
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