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· 11/8/2023

State of Iowa v. Lonnie Lavoy Richardson

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  • holding that a denial of outdoor recreation for one year for a maximum-security, administratively segregated inmate was “not sufficiently serious to implicate the Eighth Amendment”
  • holding that one-year denial of outdoor recreation was “not sufficiently serious to implicate the Eighth Amendment”
  • holding that prisoner’s denial of outdoor recreation his first year at the facility did not violate the Eighth Amendment
  • finding that one-year deprivation of outdoor exercise “[was] not sufficiently serious to implicate the Eighth Amendment”
  • finding that conditions including “lock-down for 23 hours per day” and “limited ability to exercise outdoors” did not amount to an Eighth Amendment violation
  • holding prison authorities did not disregard health concerns of inmate by failing to move him to another facility given they attempted to accommodate his need for nonsmoking environment by placing him near cells of nonsmoking inmates and installing air filters in his cell

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