Prisoner allowed to challenge his prison conditions
Ellis Walker, an inmate at the federal prison at Ray Brook, N.Y, may continue his lawsuit against the allegedly deplorable prison conditions, said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Judge Denny Chin, writing the majority opinion, noted that Walker “plausibly alleged conditions that, perhaps alone and certainly in combination, deprive him of a minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities,” and that prison officials were “deliberately indifferent to this deprivation.”
Walker alleged in his complaint that he was placed in a six-man cell, which was not enough space “to even turn or move in.” In addition to the six prisoners, the cell contained their bunk beds, their belongings, two toilets and two sinks.