Leonard Young, Jr. v. Deputy Superintendent Greene S

OPINION OF THE COURT

KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.

Leonard G. Young, Jr., a Pennsylvania prisoner with a long history of mental illness, filed suit alleging that Appellees-Defendants 1 violated his Eighth Amendment rights by securing him in a four-point restraint chair, naked, for fourteen hours, althodgh he did not pose a threat to himself or others. Because we agree with Young that the District Court erred as a matter of law in granting summary judgment against him, we will vacate the judgment and remand for further proceedings.

1. Factual Background

For over six years, Young has been held in solitary…