People v. Salverson

How courts have described this case

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• “[Certain] inescapable accompaniments of segregated confinement[ ] will not render segregated confinement unconstitutional absent other illegitimate deprivations.” (emphasis added)
• two exercise periods for one hour each per week may not transgress Eighth Amendment standard if confined to a relatively short period of maximum confinement
• “Such indefinite limitation on exercise may be harmful to a prisoner’s health, and, if so, would amount to ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment.”
• two one-hour exercise periods may not be sufficient where confinement is lengthy
• restriction of two one-hour exercise periods each week for prisoners in segregation may transgress the Eighth Amendment if the restriction “has extended over a period of years [three and a half] and is likely to extend indefinitely for the balance of plaintiffs confinement”
• restriction of two one-hour exercise periods each week for prisoners in segregation may transgress the Eighth Amendment if the restriction \has extended over a period of years [three and a half] and is likely to extend indefinitely for the balance of plaintiff's confinement\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).