Nathan Gillis v. Jon E. Litscher, Gerald A. Berge, Warden, Bradley Hompe

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• holding that the combined effects of unsanitary conditions can violate the Constitution
• holding that the temporary conditions of a state prisoner's segregated cell, which lacked a bed, normal meals, and other amenities (but which included a toilet and did not involve ambulatory restraints), was an objectively serious condition under the Eighth Amendment
• explaining that prisons No. 08‐2567 Page 4 must provide “reasonably adequate ventilation, sanitation, bedding, hygienic materials, and utilities” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• explaining that prisons must provide “reasonably adequate ventilation, sanitation, bedding, hygienic materials, and utilities” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• ruling qualified immunity inappropriate on Wisconsin supermax inmate/plaintiffs Eighth Amendment claim where conditions of his confinement included: “denial of shelter, heat, and hygiene items implicated an inmate’s constitutional rights”
• noting that evaluation of conditions of confinement claims is a fact-intensive inquiry

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