Legal Opinion
Ashoor Rasho v. Willard Elyea
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 7, 2017No. 14-1902PublishedCited by 476 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, District Judge.
Ashoor Rasho arrived at the Pontiac Correctional Center (“Pontiac”), an Illinois prison, in 2003. Rasho has a history of mental illness and, after'he stopped taking his medication and began showing escalating symptoms, he was transferred into Pontiac’s Mental Health Unit. He remained in the Mental Health Unit until 2006, when he was transferred to the North Segregation Unit. Rasho believes that he was transferred out of the Mental Health Unit not because he no longer required the specialized treatment offered there but instead in retaliation for complaints he had lodged…
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