Scudder, Circuit Judge.
Shawn Patterson, an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections, invoked 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and brought suit, alleging that a group of correctional officers violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by beating him and then parading him naked in front of his fellow prisoners...
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