Constitutional Law - Cruel and Unusual Punishments under the Eighth Amendment - Prisoner-Driven Confinement Condition Claims

Authors

Douglas Hottle

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has held that in order for a confinement condition claim to violate the Eighth Amendment, the prisoner must demonstrate that the complained of condition was a violation of the Eighth Amendment and that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the unnecessary and wanton infliction of such violative conditions.

Wilson v Seiter, US , 111 S Ct 2321 (1991).

First Page

1005

Recommended Citation

Douglas Hottle, Constitutional Law - Cruel and Unusual Punishments under the Eighth Amendment - Prisoner-Driven Confinement Condition Claims, 30 Duq. L. Rev. 1005 (1992).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol30/iss4/10