Opinion ID: 3062972
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Administrative Confinement

Text: For the next three weeks in administrative confinement, Smith was prescribed “a modicum of ibuprofen for his pain,” but “it was not enough to relieve it entirely.” Smith had to sleep on a hard, thin mattress and woke up every hour or two due to “excruciating pain” in his back, pelvis and left leg. Smith “had to get up to move around, painfully walk with his walker, sit up for several minutes, and self-massage his lower back until the pain abated to a degree that [he] could lay down again to sleep for a while.” Smith filed “grievances of a medical nature” on August 5 and 6, 2004 “concerning his problems,” but nothing was done to alleviate them. Smith walked with the walker, and later without it, in his cell and to his shower three times a week “as his entire rehabilitative regimen.” When released from administrative confinement, Smith could walk the distances required in the open population only slowly and painfully.