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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 17:25:02+00:00

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D. CLELAND, CAROL MCBRIDE, KING, and URASKI Defendants.
Plaintiff alleges that he tried to kill himself by taking pills on May 1, 2018. (Doc. 1, p. 5). Although he was initially taken to the Health Care Unit, he was then escorted to the back where defendant Cleland started to beat him, while defendants McBride, King, and Uraski stood by and failed to intervene. Id. Plaintiff was handcuffed with his hands behind his back at the time. Id.
Count 1 - Cleland beat Plaintiff while he was handcuffed, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, while McBride, King, and Uraski failed to intervene.
The intentional use of excessive force by prison guards against an inmate without penological justification constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and is actionable under § 1983. See Wilkins v. Gaddy, 559 U.S. 34 (2010); DeWalt v. Carter, 224 F.3d 607, 619 (7th Cir. 2000). An inmate must show that an assault occurred, and that “it was carried out ‘maliciously and sadistically' rather than as part of ‘a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline.'” Wilkins, 559 U.S. at 40 (citing Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 6 (1992)). The factors relevant to this determination include: (1) the need for the application of force; (2) the amount of force that was used; (3) the extent of injury inflicted; (4) the extent of the threat to the safety of staff and inmates, as reasonably perceived by the responsible officials on the basis of the facts known to them; and (5) any efforts made to temper the severity of a forceful response. Lewis v. Downey, 581 F.3d 467, 477 (7th Cir. 2009); Outlaw v. Newkirk, 259 F.3d 833, 837 (7th Cir. 2001) (citation omitted).

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