Robert Davis v. Wayne Scott, Director v. Unidentified Dawson, Correction Officer III Unidentified Crowder, Correction Officer, III

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• noting that this court may affirm on any basis supported by the record
• holding inmate confined in cell with blood on walls and excrement and flood on floor did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment where inmate was provided cleaning supplies and only kept in cell for three days
• reasoning that confinement for only three days weakened a prisoner’s conditions-of-confinement claim
• describing no Eighth Amendment violation when a prisoner was exposed to raw sewage on the floor of his cell from toilet overflow for four days
• finding no constitutional violation where the plaintiff was kept in a cell “with blood on the walls and excretion on the floors” for three days (quotation omitted)
• finding no Eighth Amendment violation where plaintiff confined to filthy conditions for three days because “cleaning supplies were made available to [the plaintiff], mitigating any intolerable conditions”

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