Robert E. Cameron v. Henry Tomes

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

This case was brought by Robert Cameron, who is currently detained in the Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous (“the Treatment Center”). The defendants, whom we refer to as “the state,” are officials who are responsible for the Treatment Center. In substance, Cameron complains that his conditions of confinement violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and his asserted constitutional “right to treatment.”

After a bench trial the district court granted injunctive relief and the state appealed. We modify the injunction in accordance…