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Violence as a Condition of Confinement Violates Eighth Amendment

Prisoner filed class action suit based on the level of inmate-inmate and
staff-inmate violence at the Correctional Institute For Men (CIFM) in New
York City. The district court found that violence level at CIFM exceeded
levels at other, comparable, institutes; that violent prisoners were not
kept apart from general population …

 

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