Porth v. Farrier

LAY, Chief Judge.

Kevin C. Porth, an inmate at the Iowa State Men’s Reformatory, appeals a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding that defendant prison officials did not violate Porth’s eighth amendment rights. Porth filed a civil rights action, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988), alleging that his eighth amendment rights had been violated by the officers and guards at the reformatory when he was placed in a strip cell without clothes, bedding, or a mattress for approximately twelve hours. He argues that the district court erred by denying his motion for a directed verdict and submitting to the…