POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaining of having been subjected to cruel and unusual punishments while an inmate of an Illinois state prison. The defendants are the state and the state agency that operates the prisons. The suit alleged that the plaintiff's cell had been infested with mice and cockroaches and that a window pane was missing and as a result rain came into his cell through the window, and that a warden...
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