CROWDER v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MARK CROWDER, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:19-cv-01815 v. (SAPORITO, M.J.) JOHN WETZEL, Secretary of Corrections, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM This is a fee-paid federal civil rights action, brought by an incarcerated plaintiff, Mark Crowder, appearing through counsel. The plaintiff seeks to hold several state correctional officials liable under

42 U.S.C. § 1983

for the violation of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process rights. The defendants…