Legal Opinion
Richard Carr v. Michael O'Leary and Michael P. Lane
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 1999No. 96-3885PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A middle-aged inmate of the minimum security unit (the “honor farm”) of Illinois’ prison at Stateville with only 96 days left before he was due to be released, Richard Carr had the misfortune to be caught in a prison riot. Prisoners angered by a lock-down following the murder of a guard took over the second floor, the residential floor, of Carr’s unit and told the other prisoners that anyone who went downstairs for the required morning count would have his head split open. The rioters were young, tough gang members, and none of the inmates in the second floor of the…
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