Legal Opinion
Maurice Smith and Sidney Jackson v. John T. Shettle, Jack R. Duckworth, and David Bonner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 24, 1991No. 90-3099PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1988 two inmates of an Indiana state prison filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages and other relief for being confined in administrative segregation at the prison. “Segregation” in this context means being separated from the general prison population and held in an approximation to solitary confinement. It can be imposed either as a form of discipline for infractions of prison regulations (“disciplinary segregation”) or, as here, for protective purposes (“administrative segregation”). One of the two inmates in question had been placed in…
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