Jackson v. Anastasio, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 21692 (7th Cir. 2025)

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals found that a liberty interest may exist for short periods of solitary confinement in deplorable conditions and offered the following language in support.

“Jackson presented evidence showing that he was subjected to three months in appalling conditions of solitary confinement at Pontiac. Taking that evidence as true, Jackson had a liberty interest in avoiding the described conditions, so prison officials should have afforded him due process.”