MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CROWLEY, District Judge.
This matter is before the court after remand from the Seventh Circuit for hearing on the merits. For the reasons stated below, petitioner is granted $5,000.00 damages for the deprivation of procedural due process rights and the infliction of excessive punishment.
On the morning of March 21, 1969, petitioner, Richard Black, an inmate at Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, was in line for breakfast...
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