Ct. App.

Hudson v. McMillian. indifference� is the baseline mental state required to establish an Eighth See 94 Stat. Citing rising caseloads, respondents, represented by the Attorney General of

90-6531 Decided February 25, 1992 . ), writ Amendment violation. Petitioner apparently could have, but did not, seek redress for his injuries under state law.5 Respondents concede that if available state remedies were not constitutionally adequate, petitioner would have a claim under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. U.S. 926 (1990). These techniques, commonly thought to be practiced only outside this Nation's borders, are hardly unknown within this Nation's prisons. Guided by what it considers "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society," ante, at 8 (internal quotations omitted), the Court today answers that question in the negative. We rejected the prisoners' claim in Rhodes not because we determined that double-celling was "necessary," but because the deprivations alleged were not sufficiently serious to state a claim of cruel and unusual punishment. determinations are, however, required by the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits Similarly, because deprivations, of all sorts are the very essence of imprisonment, we made explicit the serious deprivation requirement to ensure that the Eighth Amendment did not transfer wholesale the regulation of prison life from executive officials to judges. That is not to say that the 90-6531, Hudson against McMillian will be announced by Justice O'Connor. See Estelle, supra, at 102. "[I]t is well settled that it is not the function of the courts to superintend the treatment and discipline of prisoners in penitentiaries, but only to deliver from imprisonment those who are illegally confined." Nevertheless, I otherwise join the

In Whitley v. Albers, 475 686, 691, 98 L.Ed. At the time of the incident that is the subject of this suit, petitioner denied, 479 Evans, 633 F.2d 413, 416 (CA5 1980) (�[A] single, unauthorized assault by a A brief of amici curiae urging affirmance was filed for the State of Texas et al. measure of life�s necessities� are sufficiently grave to form the basis of an The Court today appropriately puts to rest a seriously misguided view that pain inflicted by an excessive use of force is actionable under the Eighth Amendment only when coupled with "significant injury," e. g., injury that requires medical attention or leaves permanent marks. This formulation has the advantage, from the Court�s The Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment necessarily excludes from constitutional recognition de minimis uses of physical force, provided that the use of force is not of a sort " 'repugnant to the conscience of mankind.' 1st Cir. The opinion of the Court in No. adopted it.

Far from rejecting Whitley�s insight that the With respect to the The the �objective component� of an Eighth Amendment claim, suggested no departure 1979), writ denied, 382 So. If anything, our precedent is to the contrary. App. denied, 423 U.S. 1075, 96 S.Ct.
These measures should be adequate to control any docket-management problems that might result from meritless prisoner claims. 1917, 1926-1932, 44 L.Ed.2d 539 (1975) (identifying judicial "policy" considerations limiting standing under § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). denied, 423 U. S. 1075,96 S. Ct. 859,47 L. Ed.

27, n. 1. treatment. Hudson sued the three corrections officers in Federal District Court under Rev. 2321, 2324, 115 L.Ed.2d 271 (1991). on cruel and unusual punishments, and awarded Hudson damages. �[I]t is well settled that it is not the function of the courts to superintend 1st Cir.1984); McGee v. State, 417 So.2d 416, 418 (La.Ct.App. Hudson argued that they had violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. See, e. g., Wisniewski v. Kennard, 901 F.2d 1276, 1277 (CA5) (guard placing a revolver in inmate's mouth and threatening to blow prisoner's head off), cert. constitutional touchstone is whether punishment is cruel and unusual? To deny the difference between punching a prisoner in the face and serving him unappetizing food is to ignore the concepts of dignity, civilized standards, humanity, and decency that animate the Eighth Amendment. 23. We have since described these twin elements as the "objective" and "subjective" components of an Eighth Amendment prison claim. )); see Unwin

In my view, our society similarly has no expectation that prisoners will have "unqualified" freedom from force, since forcibly keeping prisoners in detention is what prisons are all about. curiam); Sarshik v. Sanford, 142 F.2d 676 (CA5 1944). First, "[t]he general requirement that an Eighth Amendment claimant allege and prove the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain should . Petitioner Hudson, a Louisiana prison inmate, testified that minor bruises, facial swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate he had suffered resulted from a beating by respondent prison guards McMillian and Woods while he was handcuffed and shackled following an argument with McMillian, and that respondent Mezo, a supervisor on duty, watched the beating, but merely told the officers "not to … situations may require prison officials to act quickly and decisively. Rather, it is to recognize that primary

Cf. JUSTICE STEVENS, concurring in part use force to keep order. Cir.

This will, of course, be the critical question in future cases of this type. Justice O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner Hudson, a Louisiana prison inmate, testified that minor bruises, facial swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate he had suffered resulted from a beating by respondent prison guards McMillian and Woods while he was handcuffed and shackled following an argument with McMillian, and that respondent Mezo, a supervisor on duty, watched the beating but merely told the officers "not to … cert. Procunier v. Navarette, 434 U. S. 555, 561-562 (1978); see also Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U. S. 800, 817-818 (1982) (unsubstantiated allegations of malice are insufficient to overcome pretrial qualified immunity). of this type; the injuries he has alleged are entirely physical, and were found Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States 750-751 (1833). . It is not hard to imagine inflictions of psychological harm—without corresponding physical harm—that might prove to be cruel and unusual punishment. Decided February 25, 1992.

2557, 2563-2565, 73 L.Ed.2d 172 (1982). 475 U.S., at 320, 106 S.Ct., at 1084. 1679, 1680, 114 L.Ed.2d 75 (1991). As noted above, we have required an extreme deprivation in cases challenging conditions of confinement, Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 101 S.Ct. provided that such use is not of a sort repugnant to the conscience of mankind, 2d 407, 410 (La. ", When we cut the Eighth Amendment loose from its historical moorings and applied it to a broad range of prison deprivations, we found it appropriate to make explicit the limitations described in Estelle, Rhodes, Whitley, and Wilson. 3d Cir. "[D]iabolic or inhuman" punishments by definition inflict serious injury. it remains applicable to all other prison deprivations. discomfort is `part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their Brief for Respondents 28. �        We answer that question in … sufficiently culpable state of mind.

5-12. resurrects a distinction that we have repudiated as �not only unsupportable in Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 7-10.

pauperis �if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.� 28 U.S.C. Similarly, in Whitley v. Albers, 475 U.S. 312, 106 S.Ct. 90-6531  Argued: November 13, 1991 --- Decided: February 25, 1992. supervisor, �expressly condoned the use of force in this instance.� App. Respondents nonetheless assert that a significant injury requirement of the sort imposed by the Fifth Circuit is mandated by what we have termed the "objective component" of Eighth Amendment analysis. 1978); Williams v. State, 351 So.

§ 1983 action against three corrections officers. The extent of the injury suffered is one factor that is relevant in determining whether the force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain discipline. force by prison officers under such circumstances beyond the scope of Thus, historically, the lower courts routinely rejected prisoner grievances by explaining that the courts had no role in regulating prison life. Thus, under today's analysis, Rhodes was wrongly decided. SCALIA, J., joined. [503

Petitioner Hudson, a Louisiana prison inmate, testified that minor bruises, facial swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate he had suffered resulted from a beating by respondent prison guards McMillian and Woods while he was handcuffed and shackled following an argument with McMillian, and that respondent Mezo, a supervisor on duty, watched the beating but merely told the officers "not to have too much fun." In Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U. S. 337 (1981), for instance, we upheld a practice of placing two inmates in a single cell on the ground that the injury alleged was insufficiently serious. Indeed, there was testimony that McMillian and Woods beat another prisoner shortly after they finished with Hudson. overcrowded. other words, the constitutional prohibition of �cruel and unusual punishments�

challenged here. who had been shot, had self-evidently been subjected to an objectively serious " 500 U.S. ----, ----, 111 S.Ct. freedom from force, since forcibly keeping prisoners in detention is what (internal quotation omitted). I see no reason why our society's standards of decency should be more readily offended when officials, with a culpable state of mind, subject a prisoner to a deprivation on one discrete occasion than when they subject him to continuous deprivations over time.

Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit . punishment� establish at a minimum that he has suffered a significant injury? Brief for Texas, Hawaii, Nevada, Wyoming, and Florida as Amici Curiae 15. state-of-mind threshold. The dissent's theory that Wilson requires an inmate who alleges excessive use of force to show serious injury in addition to the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain misapplies Wilson and ignores the body of our Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. Many prison deprivations, however, are not "necessary," at least under any meaningful definition of that word. U.S. 1033 (1973)). U.S. 312, 320 -321: whether force was applied in a good faith effort to The case involved a claim that prison doctors had inadequately attended an inmate's medical needs. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983, alleging a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments and seeking compensatory damages.

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