Shedrick L. King v. Weldon Cooke, Robert Doster, Charles Bloomer, Tim Todd, and Various Unknown Physicians and Surgeons, Wishard Memorial Hospital

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1994-08-15

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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge. During a riot at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana on April 21-22, 1986, emergency squad guards used “artillery simulation devices” to subdue prisoners. Inmate Shedrick King, who was locked in his cell the entire time and did not participate in the uprising, claimed his eyes were injured from the gas used by the prison guards. A lockdown w…

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