15. Facilities.

U.S. District Court

TEMPERATURE

VENTILATION

Moody v. Kearney, 380 F.Supp.2d 393 (D.Del. 2005). A state inmate filed a [section] 1983 action alleging that prison officials locked him in an unventilated room, causing him to suffer a severely debilitating heat stroke. The district court dismissed the case and the inmate appealed. The appeals court reversed and remanded. On remand, the district court granted summary judgment for the defendants in part, and denied it in part. The court held that the inmate stated a claim for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs and that fact issues remained as to whether a private contractor that provided medical services for the prison had a policy of not protecting vulnerable...

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