Legal Opinion
John Smentek v. Thomas Dart
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 19, 2012No. 11-3261PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
John Smentek and others, former inmates of Cook County Jail, are plaintiffs in this class action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County and its sheriff. The suit, filed in the federal district court in Chicago, charges that the defendants’ failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail’s 10,000 inmates constitutes the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment and thus violates both the Eighth Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Most people held in jails as distinct from prisons, including most members of the…
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