POSNER, Chief Judge. Jason Billman, an inmate of an Indiana state prison, attempted to bring suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the prison system, prison officials, and guards, seeking damages for the infliction upon him of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment, the principles of which have been held to bind the…
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