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Qualified Immunity Upheld on Supermax Mental Illness Aggravation

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's grant of
qualified immunity on a mentally ill prisoner's condition of confinement claim.

Wisconsin prisoner Christopher Scarver is schizophrenic and delusional.
He has murdered three people, two of them in prison in 1994. One was the
notorious Jeffrey Dahmer--the cannibal ...

 

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