Mammana v. Barben
3rd Cir. No. 20-2364
Rights Behind Bars, along with Covington & Burling, represent a plaintiff on appeal who was forced to endure torture at the hands of corrections officers in retaliation for requesting medical care. Officers forced plaintiff to wear paper-thin clothes and confined him—without sheets, blankets, or toilet paper—to a solitary cell with extremely cold temperature and bright lights on 24 hours a day. Though he spent four sleepless nights alone and shivering while prison staff tormented him, the district court refused to acknowledge the existence of a Bivens cause of action for plaintiff’s straightforward claim of prisoner abuse.
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