Legal Opinion
Henderson v. DeRobertis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 1991No. Nos. 88-2698, 88-3407 and 88-3430PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
During a four-day period in 1982, the outdoor temperature at Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center plunged to a low of 22 degrees below zero; the prison’s heating system in Cellhouse B-West malfunctioned at the same time. Two of some 300 inmates housed in B-West, Thomas Jefferson and Robert Henderson, filed separate complaints under 42 U.S.G. § 1983 alleging that prison officials violated their eighth amendment rights by subjecting them to freezing temperatures which constituted unusual punishment. In a consolidated trial a jury apparently agreed that because of the…
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