Legal Opinion
Harriett G. Woodward, Special Administrator of the Estate of Justin Farver, Deceased v. Correctional Medical Services of Illinois, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 17, 2004No. 03-3147PublishedCited by 441 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
After 23-year-old Justin Farver hanged himself with a bed sheet while a pretrial detainee at the Lake County (Illinois) jail, Harriett Woodward, his grandmother and the special administrator of his estate, sued Correctional Medical Services (“CMS,” a private contractor hired by Lake County to provide medical and mental health services at its jail), CMS agents — nurse Karen Dean, social worker Joel Mollner, and Dr. Michael Fernando— the sheriff of Lake County, and Alan Myres, a Lake County deputy sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and an Illinois wrongful death…
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