Legal Opinion
Nathan Gillis v. Jon E. Litscher, Gerald A. Berge, Warden, Bradley Hompe
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2006No. 06-2099PublishedCited by 490 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Stripped naked in a small prison cell with nothing except a toilet; forced to sleep on a concrete floor or slab; denied any human contact; fed nothing but “nu-tri-loaf”; and given just a modicum of toilet paper — four squares — -only a few times. Although this might sound like a stay at a Soviet gulag in the 1930s, it is, according to the claims in this case, Wisconsin in 2002. Whether these conditions are, as a matter of law, only “uncomfortable, but not unconstitutional” as the State contends, is the issue we consider in this case.
Nathan Gillis alleges in this case,…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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