ELLIOTT v. BYERS

No. 91-3229.

975 F.2d 1375 (1992)

Joseph L. ELLIOTT; Keith Moore; Michael J. Sirmons; Eddie J. Webster; Joe S. Brown, Appellants, v. James BYERS; A.L. Lockhart; K.E. Luckett; Larry Norris; Harry Rhodes; Melvin Evans; Oscar Fuller; Curtis Hampton; W. Warfield, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joyce Bradley Babin, Little Rock, Ark. (Letty C. McAdams, on the brief), for appellants.

William F. Knight, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, FAGG, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Joseph L. Elliott and several other Arkansas prisoners (the inmates) appeal a judgment adverse to their civil rights claim against several prison officials. We affirm.

The inmates, maximum security prisoners in administrative segregation, are required to work on hoe squads in a shoulder to shoulder "tightened down" formation. The inmates assert this practice violates their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment because...

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