EASTON ET AL.

v.

CITY OF BOULDER, COLORADO, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (49 total)

• Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (U.S. 1994)
  …rson because of a crime or evil-doing”) (emphasis added); cf. Wilson, 501 U. S., at 300, citing Duck-worth v. Franzen, 780 F. 2d 645, 652 (CA7 1985) (“‘The infliction of punishment is a deliberate act intended to chastise or deter’ ”), cert, denied, 479 U. S. 816 (1986). The Court’s unduly narrow definition of punishment blinds it to the reality of prison life. Consider, for example, a situation in which one individual is sentenced to a period of confinement at a relatively safe, well-managed prison, comple…
• Hudson v. McMILLIAN, 503 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1992)
  …does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment [*12] . . .”)• But see Duckworth v. Franzen, 780 F. 2d 645, 652 (CA7 1985) (“If a guard decided to supplement a prisoner’s official punishment by beating him, this would be punishment. . cert. denied, 479 U. S. 816 (1986). We take no position on respondents’ legal argument because we find it inapposite on this record. The Court of Appeals left intact the Magistrate’s determination that the violence at issue in this case was “not an isolated assault.” App. 27,…
• Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U.S. 294 (U.S. 1991)
  …on [a] prisoner’s toe and broke it, this would not be punishment in anything remotely like the accepted meaning of the word, whether we consult the usage of 1791, or 1868, or 1985.” Duckworth v. Franzen, 780 F. 2d 645, 652 (CA7 1985), cert. denied, 479 U. S. 816 (1986). See also Johnson v. Glick, 481 F. 2d 1028, 1032 (CA2) (Friendly, J.), (“The thread common to all [Eighth Amendment prison cases] is that ‘punishment’ has been deliberately administered for a penal or disciplinary purpose”), cert. denied sub…