John Townsend v. Sarah Cooper

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

John Townsend was a prisoner at the Green Bay Correctional Institution (“GBCI”), a facility operated by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (“DOC”). Townsend sued a number of officials at the Green Bay facility for violations of his civil rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The lower court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

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On appeal from a grant of summary judgment, “[t]he evidence of the non-mov-ant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor.”…