HIGGS v. CARVER

No. 01-1559.

286 F.3d 437 (2002)

James Carl HIGGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William E. CARVER and James M. Wolfe, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 1, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Higgs, Correctional Industrial Complex, Pendleton, IN, for plaintiff-appellant.

Samual A. Day, Kightlinger & Gray, New Albany, IN, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This prisoner's civil rights suit raises a multitude of claims, but only two have sufficient merit to warrant discussion.

While a pretrial detainee in an Indiana county jail, Higgs got into a fight with another inmate and was placed in "lockdown segregation," a form of solitary confinement. He filed a grievance with the jail authorities, who ten days after he had been placed in lockdown segregation wrote him that he had been "placed...

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