Legal Opinion
Steven Lisle, Jr. v. William Welborn
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2019No. 18-1595PublishedCited by 470 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hamilton, Circuit Judge.
*710 This appeal presents issues stemming from a prison's discipline of a prisoner and his later suicide attempts. The story began in 2014 when correctional officers at the Menard Correctional Facility found contraband alcohol in the cell of plaintiff Steven D. Lisle, Jr. Lisle's cellmate at first took responsibility for the contraband but later recanted outside of Lisle's presence. He said instead that Lisle had been abusing him and had forced him to take the blame for the alcohol. In disciplinary proceedings, Lisle later asked to call a witness to testify about his…
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