Wilson v. Ryker

ORDER

Illinois prisoner Maurice Wilson appeals the district court’s dismissal of his complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect him from attacks he expects to suffer at the hands of other prisoners. We affirm.

Wilson, an inmate at the Lawrence Correctional Center, brought this failure-to-protect suit out of concern that his pleas *589for protection have gone unheeded and that he “should not have to wait until he is victimized to seek adjudication of his 8th Amendment Claim.” He sued the prison’s warden, several assistant…