Legal Opinion
Thomas Patrick Walsh v. Nicholas Mellas and Harry Martin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 21, 1988No. 86-2413PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Defendants Nicholas Mellas and Harry Martin, prison officials at the Stateville Correctional Center, appeal the district court’s award of $2,500 compensatory and $5,000 punitive damages in favor of a Stateville inmate, Thomas Walsh. We affirm.
I
The plaintiff-appellee Thomas Patrick Walsh (“Walsh”), a state prisoner currently serving sentences for three felony convictions, brought this action against six Stateville officers pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976) after Walsh was assaulted by his cellmate (Frank Lee) at the Stateville Correctional Center in 1979 while both were…
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