Thomas Porter v. Harold Clarke

WYNN, Circuit Judge:

*353Defendants Harold W. Clarke, in his official capacity as director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, and David Zook, in his official capacity as warden of Virginia's Sussex I State Prison (collectively, "State Defendants"), appeal a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia holding that conditions of confinement on Virginia's death row violated the Eighth Amendment and enjoining reinstatement of those conditions. The district court held that the death row inmates' long-term detention in conditions amounting to solitary confinement…