Giddings v. Joseph Coleman Center

How courts have described this case

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• finding that parolee’s “status was akin to that of a convicted person punished by incarceration” and therefore Eighth Amendment applied
• finding that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment applied because a parolee placed in a halfway house “was essentially incarcerated and being punished”
• finding that Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference standard applied to parolee who was confined to halfway house by state board of pardon and parole and was “completely dependent on the Center for all of his basic needs”
• analyzing claim that parole agent failed to prevent parolee’s self-harm under Eighth Amendment where parolee was confined to a halfway house
• analyzing claim that parole agent failed to prevent parolee’s self-harm under Eighth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).