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Nebraska Prisoner's Medical, Mental Suffering Resulting from Segregation Does Not Support Eighth Amendment Violation

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Escapes, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Ad-Seg Hearings. Location: Nebraska.

Nebraska state prisoner Thomas Fleming brought a federal civil rights action in 2003 alleging violations related to conditions of confinement, due process, inadequate medical care, and inflicted dis-associative disorder. The district court dismissed his Eighth Amendment claims for lack of merit, and declined to rule on the due process claims …

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