GILLIS v. LITSCHER

No. 06-2099.

468 F.3d 488 (2006)

Nathan GILLIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jon E. LITSCHER, Gerald A. Berge, Warden, Bradley Hompe, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 14, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela R. McGillivray (argued), David C. Bender, McNeil & McGillivray, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Adrian Dresel-Velasquez (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Stripped naked in a small prison cell with nothing except a toilet; forced to sleep on a concrete floor or slab; denied any human contact; fed nothing but "nutri-loaf"; and given just a modicum of toilet paper—four squares—only a few times. Although this might sound like a stay at a Soviet gulag in the 1930s, it is, according to the claims in this case, Wisconsin in 2002. Whether these conditions are, as a matter of law, only "uncomfortable...

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