Legal Opinion
Ellis Henderson v. Michael F. Sheahan and J.W. Fairman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 2, 2000No. 98-2964PublishedCited by 416 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Ellis Henderson was a pretrial detainee at the Cook County jail for approximately four-and-one-half years. He entered the jail in January 1990 and, except for a one month period in which he was housed in another facility during his murder trial, remained incarcerated in the jail until he was transferred to an Illinois state prison facility in June 1994. The Defendants in this case are Michael F. Sheahan, Sheriff of Cook County, and J.W. Fairman, the former Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections.
While detained at the Cook County jail,…
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