Booth v. King.U.S. District Court THREATS Booth v. King, 346 F.Supp.2d 751 (E.D.Pa. 2004). An inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. brought a pro se [section] 1983 action against employees and former employees of a city prison system. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants in part, and denied in part. The court held that the inmate failed to show that he suffered actual injury due to the alleged restrictions imposed on his access to the prison law library, opening of his legal mail outside of his presence, and destruction and confiscation confiscation In law, the act of seizing property without compensation and submitting it to the public treasury. Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be confiscated by the police. Additionally, government action (e.g. of his legal papers. The court found that correctional officers did not violate the inmate's Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment Such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the Common Law, or any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. when they allegedly verbally abused him and threatened him with false reports, mail tampering tampering The adulteration of a thing. See Drug tampering. , or violence. The court noted that verbal abuse verbal abuse Psychology A form of emotional abuse consisting of the use of abusive and demeaning language with a spouse, child, or elder, often by a caregiver or other person in a position of power. See Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Spousal abuse. and threats will not, without some reinforcing act accompanying them, sustain an Eighth Amendment claim. (Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
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