Glass v. Rodriguez

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MASON, United States Magistrate Judge.

The plaintiff, currently a state prisoner, has brought this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff claims that the defendant, a physician at the Cook County Correctional Center, violated the plaintiffs constitutional rights by acting with deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. More specifically, the plaintiff alleges that while he was held at the jail as a pretrial detainee, the defendant failed to provide adequate care for back problems. The parties have consented to have this…