United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of yard privileges to prisoner in a segregation unit or solitary confinement for no more than 90 days at a stretch is not cruel and unusual punishment, given plaintiff-prisoner's history of attacks and assaults upon inmates and prison guards.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/07/2000
• Decided 01/22/2001
• Published 01/22/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, COFFEY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard P. Reichstein (Argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Erik G. Light (Argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant