PEARL v. RHODES

No. 83-1733.

711 F.2d 868 (1983)

Michael Wyane PEARL, Appellant, v. Lt. RHODES and Captain McHan, Employees, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1983.

Rehearing Denied August 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Wyane Pearl, pro se.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., C.R. McNair, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge and ROSS and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Michael Pearl is an inmate at Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. On December 21, 1982, he was working in the prison brickyard. Pearl alleges that for no reason a prison guard handcuffed him and later tightened the cuffs, causing his hands and arms to swell. When Pearl complained about the tightness of the cuffs to another guard, the guard put his finger between the handcuff and Pearl's wrist. Pearl was then taken back to the prison...

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