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Seventh Circuit· 12/18/1989

Johnson v. Pelker

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  • 891 F.2d 136

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  • holding that a temporary deprivation of dry or warm sleeping quarters as long as two days did not “approach unconstitutional proportions.”
  • noting that cell smeared with feces with no access to running water was sufficiently serious to support Eighth Amendment claim
  • recognizing a constitutional claim where a cell lacked running water for three days, feces were smeared on the wall, and the prisoner’s request for cleaning supplies were ignored
  • suggesting that prison officials may have violated the Eighth Amendment where they ignored an inmate’s request for cleaning supplies and water access while the inmate was housed for three days in a cell smeared with feces and without running water
  • finding that placing a prisoner in a cell for three days in which feces are smeared on the walls and there is no running water while ignoring his requests for cleaning supplies may violate the Eighth Amendment
  • reversing summary judgment when prisoner spent three days in a cell with feces smeared on the wall without cleaning supplies and without running water

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