James Carl Higgs v. William E. Carver and James M. Wolfe

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2002-04-01

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This prisoner’s civil rights suit raises a multitude of claims, but only two have sufficient merit to warrant discussion. While a pretrial detainee in an Indiana county jail, Higgs got into a fight with another inmate and was placed in “lock-down segregation,” a form of solitary confinement. He filed a grievance with the jail authorit…

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