Kentucky v. Hamilton

How later courts describe this case

• "Treatment of the mental disorders of mentally disturbed inmates is a 'serious medical need.’ ”
• although double-celling not practiced, excessive in-cell time in cells ranging in size from 54 to 59.2 square feet in Indiana state prison over 100 years old, combined with otherwise constitutionally adequate conditions of confinement, constituted unconstitutionally overcrowded conditions
• overcrowding can violate eighth amendment
• affirming imposition of population cap