United States ex rel. Gardner v. Madden

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• affirming damage award based on evidence of the defendant's \actual knowledge\ of segregation cell conditions
• finding cruel and unusual punishment when an inmate was confined for eleven days, naked, without soap, towels, or toilet paper, and without bedding of any kind, forcing the inmate to sleep on the floor, the temperature being “sufficiently cold to cause extreme discomfort.”
• State prisoners are entitled under Civil Rights Act to damages against warden for \barbarous and inhumane\ treatment by deputy warden.
• State prisoners are entitled under Civil Rights Act to damages against warden for “barbarous and inhumane” treatment by deputy warden.
• prison warden knew and held ultimate responsibility for poor strip cell conditions
• $1500 award to compensate prisoner for being confined nude in isolation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).