Gordon J. O'Brien v. John R. Moriarty

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• segregated confinement involving “neither intolerable isolation nor inadequate food, heat, sanitation, lighting or bedding” is not cruel and unusual
• “[f]or a person to be cut off markedly from all others is a privation not to be underestimated.”
• “Imposed inappropriately, or for too long a period, even the permissible forms of solitary confinement might violate the Eighth Amendment.”
• segregated confinement for twenty-three hours a day did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment
• segregated confinement for twenty-three hours a day did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment

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