JONES`EL v. BERGE

No. 00-C-421-C.

164 F.Supp.2d 1096 (2001)

Dennis E. JONES`EL, Micha`El Johnson, De'Ondre Conquest, Luis Nieves, Scott Seal, Alex Figueroa, Robert Sallie, Chad Goetsch, Edward Piscitello, Quintin L'Minggio, Lorenzo Balli, Donald Brown, Christopher Scarver, Benjamin Biese, Lashawn Logan, Jason Pagliarini and Andrew Collette, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Gerald BERGE and Jon Litscher, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

October 10, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed Garvey, Glenn M. Stoddard, Pamela R. McGillivray, Garvey & Stoddard, S.C., Madison, WI, David C. Fathi, National Prison Project of ACLU Foundation, Washington, DC, Howard B. Eisenberg, Robin Shellow, Milwaukee, WI, Micabil Diaz Martines, ACLU of WI, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Stan Davis, Assistant Attorney General, Madison, WI, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

Inmates on Level One at the State of Wisconsin's Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin spend all but four hours a week confined to a cell. The "boxcar" style door on the cell is solid except for a shutter and a trap door that opens into the dead space of a vestibule through which a guard may transfer items to the inmate without interacting with him. The cells are illuminated 24 hours a day. Inmates...

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