Legal Opinion
Belbachir v. County of McHenry
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 2013No. 13-1002PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Hassiba Belbachir committed suicide in McHenry County Jail, a local Illinois jail in which she was confined at the request of federal authorities pending a removal hearing. An Algerian citizen, aged 27, she had entered the United States as a visitor in November 2004. She overstayed and in February of the following year flew from Chicago to England (we don’t know why), where the immigration authorities detained her for about a week and then returned her to Chicago. U.S. immigration authorities took her into custody upon arrival and placed her in the McHenry County Jail,…
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