Lightfoot v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• finding that double celling of inmates in the East and South Cell Houses at Menard, where inmates only had 65 and 56 square feet, inadequate
• noting lack of peer review and expressing court’s “alarm[ ]” at the “lack of regular system of review of deaths”
• finding unacceptable delays in transfer of residents in need of psychiatric care
• “Health care admission screening procedures, including a physical examination performed by a physician, are an essential element of a constitutionally adequate system”
• inadequate defibrillator believed to have caused adult inmate’s death; court ordered Illinois prison to obtain adequate emergency medical equipment
• use of untrained inmate workers to prescribe and distribute medicine, participate in sick call screening, handle medical records, and perform laboratory work contributes to unconstitutional health care system

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).