Legal Opinion
Craig v. Floyd County, Ga.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 20, 2011No. 10-13225PublishedCited by 261 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether Henry Craig, a former detainee at the Floyd County Jail in Rome, Georgia, failed to present sufficient evidence that Georgia Correctional Health, LLC, had a policy or custom of deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of pretrial detainees in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. While detained for nine days in jail, Craig received sixteen evaluations from nine different employees of Georgia Correctional before he received a computed tomography scan, which revealed that Craig had air, bleeding, and…
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