Govan v. Campbell.

• Position: Violation of United States Constitution. 8th Amendment and United States Constitution. 14th Amendment

U.S. District Court

STAFFING

SANITATION

FACILITIES

Govan v. Campbell, 289 F.Supp.2d 289 (N.D.N.Y. 2003). An inmate filed a pro se action alleging that county officials violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The court held that the inmate's alleged conditions, consisting of unclean shower stalls with rust bubbles, cockroaches that crawled into his orifices while he slept, wild birds that were flying free through the facility, and an unsafe condition that resulted from the on-duty officer's inability to see directly into his cell at all...