State v. Rubenstahl

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• holding that convicted prisoner stated Eighth Amendment claim by alleging that he was exposed to “bitter cold” wearing only underwear for twenty-one days
• holding under the Eighth Amendment that \civilized standards of humane decency simply do not permit a man for a substantial period of time to be denuded and exposed to the bitter cold of winter in northern New York State\
• vacating a dismissal on the pleadings where the complaint alleged that prisoner was deliberately exposed to bitter cold for periods of twenty-one days or more while in solitary confinement
• finding an Eighth Amendment violation where the prison denied the plaintiff all hygiene products, placed him in a filthy solitary cell without heat in the middle of winter, and forced him under the threat of violence to remain standing from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
• confinement in dirty cell encrusted with human excretion without clothing or rudimentary hygienic implements under threat of beatings held cruel and unusual punishment
• denuded and exposed to bitter cold, deprived of the basic elements of hygiene such as soap and toilet paper, filthy and barren cell

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).