Watts v. Ramos

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

Plaintiff McNeal Watts filed a complaint in forma pauperis against defendant Anthony Ramos under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Watts, an inmate at State-ville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois, claims that Ramos, who was then managing the prison’s segregation unit, violated Watts’ Eighth Amendment rights by depriving him of all recreation time for over a year, from March 6, 1995 through March 9, 1996. Watts seeks compensatoiy and punitive damages, as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. Pending before the Court…