Wilson v. Ryker

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2011-12-12

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ORDER Illinois prisoner Maurice Wilson appeals the district court’s dismissal of his complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , alleging that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect him from attacks he expects to suffer at the hands of other prisoners. We affirm. Wilson, an inmate at the Lawrence Correctional Center, brought this failure-to-protect suit out…

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