Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference

By: Derek Hawkins//November 21, 2021//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Lavertis Stewart v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al.,

Case No.: 19-2994

Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference

LaVertis Stewart, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, sued the assistant warden, two doctors, and a medical corporation under the Eighth Amendment, claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by refusing to grant him an exemption to wearing a restrictive security device, a black box, when he left the facility for medical appointments. He alleged that the black box caused extreme pain because of his existing medical conditions. The district court granted summary judgment for the various defendants, and we affirm.

Affirmed

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Derek A Hawkins is Corporate Counsel, at Salesforce.

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