Legal Opinion
Sweatman v. Giles
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided April 19, 2013No. 2120203PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
Jason Ray Sweatman, an inmate at Ven-tress Correctional Facility (“the prison”), appeals from a judgment dismissing his civil action against the warden of the prison, J.C. Giles, and the chaplain of the prison, Daniel B. Rieben.
Sweatman filed a complaint against Giles and Rieben, both individually and in their official capacities, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In the complaint, Sweat-man alleged that Giles had violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to enforce the prison’s no-smoking policy. Specifically, Sweatman asserted that Giles “acted with deliberate indifference” by failing to…
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