McCracken v. Haas

Judith E. Levy, United States District Judge

On January 5, 2014, plaintiff Mark McCracken was raped in his prison cell. He brings this suit against various prison *942officials, alleging they violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment when they were deliberately indifferent to the threat posed by plaintiff's cellmate. This case is before the Court on defendants' motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, the motion is granted in part and denied in part.

I. Background

Plaintiff, a former prisoner at the Cotton Correctional Facility ("JCF") in…