Lawrence Hayes v. Gregg Scott

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility in Rushville, Illinois, houses persons adjudged to be sexually violent; often they are persons who have completed prison sentences for sexually violent acts but are considered too dangerous to be released into the general population; so they remain confined, though in a facility (Rushville) that is not, at least technically, a prison. See, e.g., Hughes v. Scott, 816 F.3d 955, 955-56 (7th Cir. 2016). The plaintiff, a detainee at Rushville named Lawrence Hayes, sued Gregg Scott, Rushville’s acting director, claiming that Scott…