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Wilson Vs. Seiter
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- US Supreme Court
- Jun 17, 1991
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U.S. 294 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Wilson v. SeiterSearch
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U.S. 294 (1991) Wilson v. SeiterSearch
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violate the Eighth Amendment must show a culpable state of mind on the part of prison officials. See, e.g., Whitley v. AlbersSearch
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U. S. 312 , 475 U. S. 319 . Rhodes v. ChapmanSearch
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standard applied in Estelle v. GambleSearch
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applies to the States through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Page 501 U. S. 297 Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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on those convicted of crimes. In Estelle v. GambleSearch
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implicates the Eighth Amendment, id. at 429 U. S. 104 (quoting Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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culpable state of mind. Estelle relied in large measure on an earlier case, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. ResweberSearch
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After Estelle, we next confronted an Eighth Amendment challenge to a prison deprivation in Rhodes v. ChapmanSearch
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That Rhodes had not eliminated the subjective component was made clear by our next relevant case, Whitley v. AlbersSearch
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Graham v. ConnorSearch
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Duckworth v. FranzenSearch
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F.2d 645, 652 (CA7 1985), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 816 (1986). See also Johnson v. GlickSearch
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John v. JohnsonSearch
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U.S. 1033 (1973). Cf. Block v. RutherfordSearch
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of a cruel prison condition may make it easier to establish knowledge, and hence some form of intent, cf. Canton v. HarrisSearch
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in specific cases often consist of composite conditions that do not lend themselves to such pigeonholing. Cf. McCarthy v. BronsonSearch
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note, is there any indication that other officials have sought to use such a defense to avoid the holding of Estelle v. GambleSearch
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Id. at 475 U. S. 320 -321 (quoting Johnson, 481 F.2d at 1033). See also Dudley v. StubbsSearch
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would constitute wantonness. The parties agree (and the lower courts have consistently held, see, e.g., LaFaut v. SmithSearch
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assuming the conduct is harmful enough to satisfy the objective component of an Eighth Amendment claim, see Rhodes v. ChapmanSearch
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LaFaut, 834 F.2d at 391-392. See also Lopez v. RobinsonSearch
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Givens v. JonesSearch
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Cortes-Quinones v. Jimenez-NettleshipSearch
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Morgan v. DistrictSearch
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U.S. at 452 U. S. 347 . As other courts besides the Court of Appeals here have understood, see Wellman v. FaulknerSearch
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Hoptowit v. RaySearch
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Wright v. RushenSearch
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or exercise -- for example, a low cell temperature at night combined with a failure to issue blankets. Compare Spain v. ProcunierSearch
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when prisoners otherwise confined in small cells almost 24 hours Page 501 U. S. 305 per day) with Clay v. MillerSearch
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and the other does not. The concurrence's imaginative interpretation of Estelle v. GambleSearch
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requirement to claims of prison-wide deprivation of medical treatment. See, e.g., Toussaint v. McCarthySearch
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French v. OwensSearch
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in principle, and it is contradicted by our cases. The concurrence purports to find support for it in two cases, Hutto v. FinneySearch
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U. S. 678 (1978), and Rhodes v. ChapmanSearch
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or judge. We first considered the relationship between the Eighth Amendment and conditions of confinement in Hutto v. FinneySearch
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It prohibits penalties that are grossly disproportionate to the offense, Weems v. UnitedSearch
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at 429 U. S. 102 , quoting Jackson v. BishopSearch
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Id. at 437 U. S. 687 . In Rhodes v. ChapmanSearch
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punishments which, although not physically barbarous, 'involve the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,' Gregg v. PageSearch
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or are grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime, Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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