Legal Opinion
Klebanowski v. Sheahan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 2008No. 06-2572PublishedCited by 304 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
While being held as a pre-trial detainee in the Cook County Jail on a murder charge, Robert Klebanowski suffered two attacks at the hands of his fellow prisoners. Klebanowski claims that his attackers were gang members. Asserting that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the risks caused by housing an armed gang population with non-gang members and periodically leaving them unsupervised, Klebanowski filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging a violation of his Fourteenth Amendment rights. The district court concluded that there was no evidence showing…
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