Islam v. Jackson

OPINION AND ORDER

REBECCA BEACH SMITH, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a Virginia inmate, has submitted a pro se complaint, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to redress alleged violations of his constitutional rights. Specifically, plaintiff alleges that defendants violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by serving contaminated food to plaintiff and other inmates and by serving food under unsanitary conditions. Plaintiff seeks $10,-000 in punitive and compensatory damages from each defendant as an official and $10,-000 in punitive and compensatory damages from…