Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

M/G Transport Services, Inc. v. Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co.

450 U.S. 1041

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1981-04-06
Topic
commercial

holding similar restrictions on general population inmates constitutional | sanitation must be such as does not threaten or cause degeneration of inmate’s mental and physical well-being | exigency where the defendant sped away from a traffic stop, drove to a house, and then ran on foot into the house | “Deliberate indifference to serious medical needs is shown when prison officials have prevented an inmate from receiving recommended treatment or when an inmate is denied access to medical personnel capable of evaluating the need for treatment.” | “Deliberate indifference to serious medical needs is shown when prison officials have prevented an inmate from receiving recommended treatment or when an inmate is denied access to medical per sonnel capable of evaluating the need for treatment.” | district court ordered that “no prisoner ... may be housed in less than 80 square feet for 20 or more hours a day. If the confining space decreased from 80 square feet, the hours of confinement therein must be reduced proportionately.” | "[D]eliberate indifference to inmates' health needs may be shown by * * * proving there are such systemic and gross deficiencies in staffing, facilities, equipment, or procedures that the inmate population is effectively denied access to adequate medical care." | “[DJeliberate indifference to inmates’ health needs may be shown by * * * proving there are such systemic and gross deficiencies in staffing, facilities, equipment, or procedures that the inmate population is effectively denied access to adequate medical care.” | Sanitation is a core aspect of Eighth Amendment analysis | including government agency mail in description of legal mail | a prison setting is tense and potentially dangerous

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.