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KNOX v. McGINNIS

No. 91-3527.

998 F.2d 1405 (1993)

Paul KNOX, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth L. McGINNIS and Thomas Roth, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd A. Smith, Corboy & Demetrio, David A. Novoselsky (argued), Novoselsky & Associates, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jan E. Hughes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL (argued), for defendants-appellees.

Before MANION and ROVNER, Circuit Judges, and REYNOLDS, Senior District Judge.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

In this prisoner civil rights action, Paul Knox alleges that officials at Stateville Correctional Center ("Stateville") subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment when they restrained him with a mechanism comprised of a waist chain, handcuffs, and a "black box." Prison officials used this restraint on Knox and on all other segregation prisoners when they were transported outside the segregation...

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