Court Opinion

ID: 9476960
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:10:05.194463+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:36.629649
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EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
For the reasons I previously stated in Sheley v. Dugger, 824 F.2d 1551, 1558 (11th Cir.1987), I dissent. We are reviewing for error a specific judgment of a district court. The record showed the district court that Sheley's confinement status had been periodically reviewed. Sheley, 824 F.2d at 1563 n. 10. The uncontested physical conditions of Sheley’s confinement satisfy the Eighth Amendment. Id. at 1564. These were the critical points. Accordingly, what was important for the district court to know was before it; the record before the court was complete enough to show that Florida had met the requirements of the federal Constitution.
The prison officials’ reports show that Sheley is an intelligent, manipulative, dangerously violent man with a history of repeated escape attempts and a future of imprisonment for many years. They forecast an escape attempt if Sheley were placed where such an attempt might be possible. Whatever our own views may be, the record before the district court lends ample support to the views of the prison officials charged with the important duty to keep their facility secure. We ought not to interfere in this matter. I would affirm the judgment of the district court.