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QUAM v. MINNEHAHA COUNTY JAIL

No. 86-5299.

821 F.2d 522 (1987)

Alan Ray QUAM, Appellant, v. MINNEHAHA COUNTY JAIL, Les Hawkey, Sheriff of Minnehaha County, Dan Elliston, Chief Deputy of Minnehaha County, Unknown Deputies, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Parliman, Sioux Falls, S.D., for appellant.

Rita D. Haverly, Sioux Falls, S.D., for appellees.

Before FAGG, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Alan Ray Quam appeals from the district court's order granting summary judgment to the defendants in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. We affirm.

Quam and five other inmates were transferred to the Minnehaha County Jail following their involvement in a disturbance at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in which several guards were stabbed. The six inmates were housed together in a cellblock separate from the rest of the jail's population. They...

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