Federal 7th Circuit Court
Civil Court
Prisoners
Dist. Ct. erred in dismissing plaintiff-prisoner’s section 1983 action alleging that defendants-prison officials violated his 8th Amendment rights by imposing frequent prison lockdowns for non-penologically-related purposes that resulted in plaintiff incurring certain physical injuries and emotional distress. Plaintiff sufficiently exhausted his administrative remedies by filing prison grievance that challenged prison’s lockdown policy, and plaintiff could cite to certain lockdowns that occurred beyond relevant limitations period, where his claim concerned continuing violation. Moreover, plaintiff set forth more than conclusory allegations regarding frequent lockdowns that occurred over substantial periods of time and provided examples of defendants’ alleged indifference to complaints concerning practice of housing multiple prisoners in small cells during said lockdowns.