Howard v. Jonah

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Howard, while an inmate at the Men’s Correctional Institution in Hardwick, Georgia (“the prison”), filed an action against two prison physicians (defendants Jonah and Cooper) and the warden of the prison (defendant Secklinger), alleging that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment due to deliberate indifference to his medical condition and that he received substandard medical care for foot and back injuries. Specifically, plaintiff alleges that defendants ignored his medical condition and that they did not immediately provide him with tennis shoes,…