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LEWIS v. RICHARDS

No. 95-3785.

107 F.3d 549 (1997)

Tommy Ray LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas D. RICHARDS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 24, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dave Welter (argued), Valparaiso University Law Clinic, Valparaiso, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Pamela Carter, Anthony Overholt (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before COFFEY, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the prison problem of coping with violence. Tommy Ray Lewis, a state prisoner, sued several employees and officials at the Westville (Indiana) Correctional Center ("WCC"), claiming that they violated his Eighth Amendment1 right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by being deliberately indifferent to three separate sexual assaults to which Lewis...

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