Sherman White v. Crispus Nix John Emmett Bobby Washington Mike Cutler Willits Birdsell

ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Sherman White, an Iowa penitentiary inmate, appeals from the district court’s judgment denying him relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 805 F.Supp. 721. We affirm.

White alleges, first, that various prison officials (defendants) violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by his placement and retention in a screened prison cell and, second, that his continued housing in the screened cell violated his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. 1

White was confined in the screened cell following an altercation with another inmate and a…