Legal Opinion
Benjamin Luttrell v. Julie Nickel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 19, 1997No. 96-3651PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Benjamin Luttrell, an inmate currently incarcerated at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Green Bay, Wisconsin, brought suit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Luttrell’s complaint alleged that while he was housed at the Dodge Correctional Institution (DCI) in Waupun, Wisconsin, Julie Nickel, a sergeant at the prison, violated his Eighth Amendment right by failing to protect him from a sexual assault by another inmate and by not transferring him from a cell housing a psychologically disturbed inmate. The district court granted Sergeant Nickel’s motion for…
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