James Davenport v. Richard Derobertis, Michael O'leary, and Michael P. Lane, Defendants

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1988-05-23

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This class action on behalf of prisoners confined in the segregation unit at State-ville, the State of Illinois’ maximum-security prison, charges that living conditions in the unit are so substandard as to be a form of cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment, made applicable to the states by interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. (The average number of prisoners c…

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