On March 11, 2013, a prisoner in the Pennsylvania state prison system filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The prisoner sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials and correctional officers of the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Greene County, Pennsylvania ("SCI-Greene"). The prisoner, represented by private counsel, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages, as well as attorneys' fees and costs, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause. Specifically, the prisoner claimed that one of the defendant correctional officers beat him, causing permanent injury. He claimed other correctional officers who witnessed the beating failed to intervene and then conspired with the first correctional officer to cover up the excessive use of force. The prisoner also brought a claim against the officials for a failure to supervise the correctional officer who used excessive force.

Originally filed pro se, the prisoner retained counsel on July 3, 2013 and filed an amended complaint on August 12, 2013. On March 26, 2014, the prisoner filed a second amended complaint.

In October 2014, the parties settled the case with a private settlement agreement whose terms are not public. The court closed the case but did not dismiss it. Either party can initiate further proceedings. As of February 27, 2016, no new proceedings have been initiated.

Jessica Kincaid - 02/27/2016


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