Craig v. GA Correctional Health, LLC, No. 10-13225 (11th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseAppellant filed a complaint that Georgia Correctional Health, LLC ("Georgia Correctional") had been deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs while he was detained for nine days in jail. During his detention, appellant received sixteen evaluations from nine different employees of Georgia Correctional before he received a computer tomography scan, which revealed that he had air, bleeding, and fractures in his head that required neurological surgery. At issue was whether appellant failed to present evidence that Georgia Correctional had a policy or custom of deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of pretrial detainees in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court held that appellant had failed to prove a policy or custom based only on his "isolated incident" and that an isolated incident, however unfortunate, did not demonstrate evidence of the county's persistent or widespread policy. Accordingly, the district court's ruling was affirmed.
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