Legal Opinion
Ojo v. United States
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 4, 2019No. 15-cv-6089 (ARR) (LB)PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, United States District Judge
While he was in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") as a pretrial detainee, pro se plaintiff, Olukayode David Ojo, was diagnosed with a dental condition caused by a decayed and broken tooth. It was not until December 2012, nearly fourteen months after his initial diagnosis, that he received a follow-up appointment with a dentist at the Metropolitan Detention Center ("MDC"). He alleges that the gap in his treatment was caused by an unconstitutional BOP policy of denying necessary dental care to pretrial detainees. He initiated this lawsuit in…
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