Sanders v. Kingston.

• Position: CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT - Violation of United States Constitution. 8th Amendment - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

DOUBLE BUNKING

SMOKE

Sanders v. Kingston, 53 Fed.Appx. 781 (7th Cir. 2002). [unpublished] A state prison inmate brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that he suffered cruel and unusual punishment due to overcrowding and exposure to second-hand smoke. The district court dismissed the case for failure to state a claim, and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed in part, and vacated and remanded in part. The appeals court held that the inmate's allegations that doubling him in a single cell without giving him a bunk for his mattress, a privacy curtain for bathroom use and a television stand, fell far short of the "extreme...