LAY, Circuit Judge.
Muriel D. Black, after obtaining a default judgment against several of the defendants, appeals from an order of the magistrate judge dismissing his complaint for failing to state a claim for retaliation and for denial of his rights under the Due Process Clause.1 [1397]*1397We vacate the magistrate judge’s order of dismissal and remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I.
Black, an African-American prison inmate confined at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois (“Menard”), filed pro se an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against numerous prison officials.2 Black alleged violations of his civil rights in the form of harassment, false disciplinary charges, segregation and other punishment. He complained of racial discrimination in job assignments; retaliation for filing complaints of racial discrimination, in violation of his First Amendment rights; violation of his right of access to the courts; and denial of both substantive and procedural due process.3 Almost ten years after Black first filed suit, he finds himself at the conclusion of his second appeal to this court, still at the pleadings stage.
Black filed his original pro se complaint on May 11, 1984, and he filed a supplemental complaint on June 12, 1984. In July and September of 1984, the defendants filed motions to dismiss Black’s complaint or alternatively for summary judgment. The magistrate judge granted summary judgment in favor of some of the defendants and dismissed the complaint against the other defendants in October of 1985. In July of 1987, this court reversed the 1985 judgment order, finding that Black had stated a cause of action for racial discrimination and that genuine issues of material fact existed regarding whether Black was confined because of racial discrimination or in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights in complaining of racial discrimination. See Black v. Lane, 824 F.2d 561 (7th Cir.1987) (“Black I”). This court directed the appointment of counsel and remanded.
Black was appointed counsel in the fall of 1987 and, after some turnover in appointed counsel, in October of 1989 he filed a second amended complaint (the “complaint”). The defendants filed a motion to strike Black’s amended complaint. This motion was denied in January of 1990. In April of 1990 the defendants requested an extension of time to file their answer. They were granted an extension until April 30,1990, which deadline they missed. The defendants requested and were granted another extension until May 7, 1990, to file their answer. The defendants again missed the deadline, and their third motion for extension of time to respond was denied on May 9, 1990. The defendants did not request reconsideration of the court’s order. Black then filed a motion for default judgment. On June 27, 1990, the court entered a default order against the defendants. In October of 1990 the court denied the defendants’ motion to vacate entry of default. The magistrate judge subsequently held hearings on the issue of damages in November and December of 1990.
In September of 1991, the court issued its order granting Black partial relief by awarding him $50.00 for racial discrimination.4 [1398]*1398Pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the magistrate judge dismissed substantial parts of Black’s complaint for failure to state a claim for which relief could be granted. At this point, the magistrate judge also dismissed approximately half of the defendants. The court dismissed as insubstantial the allegations that Black was denied access to the courts because the “period of time between plaintiff’s activities and the alleged retaliatory conduct precludes a reasonable inference of retaliation.” The court also dismissed Black’s claim that he was denied due process when false disciplinary charges were levied against him, reasoning that being prosecuted under fabricated charges is not in itself a violation of procedural due process. Finally, the court ruled that Black’s allegations of retaliation for his exercise of his First Amendment rights failed to allege personal involvement of the defendants or improper racial discrimination. On appeal, Black claims that his complaint states a claim for retaliation and for denial of his due process rights.
II.
At the outset', we note that it was improper for the district court to dismiss any of Black’s claims at a damages hearing without providing Black notice that the merits would be considered. See Quirindongo Pacheco v. Rolon Morales, 963 F.2d 15, 16 (1st Cir.1992) (per curiam) (holding that it was inappropriate for the district court to dismiss complaint for lack of evidence, after the entry of default, where court did not notify plaintiff that court intended to consider issue of liability).
A Retaliation
The district court dismissed Black’s claim that he was retaliated against after filing a complaint of employment discrimination with the Office of Civil Rights Compliance of the United States Department of Justice. The court decided that the facts alleged by Black did not make out a claim for retaliation for the exercise of his right to petition for redress of grievances. The district court was not at liberty to make this determination, however, because almost six years ago this court found that Black had “made several specific allegations in support of his retaliation charge.” Black I, 824 F.2d at 562. For example, this court observed:
These allegations are best illustrated by the experiences. that Black had with two prison officers when he tried to perform the job that he began in December 1983- Black alleged that Sergeant Aldridge and Officer Inman prevented him from doing his job by locking him in his cell when he should have been performing his duties as a counselors’ clerk. In addition, Black claimed that when the officers did allow him out of his cell, they harassed him and prevented him from collecting inmates’ counselor request slips, a duty that was an integral part of his job. The activities of Sergeant Aldridge and Officer In-man are only one example of the treatment that Black alleges he received because he filed a complaint with the Department of Justice.
Id. (emphasis added). The same allegations were pleaded in Black’s second amended complaint. Under the law of the case doctrine, the district court may not ignore this court’s earlier decree. See Key v. Sullivan, 925 F.2d 1056, 1060 (7th Cir.1991) (“The gist of the [law of the case] doctrine is that once an appellate court either expressly or by necessary implication decides an issue, the decision will be binding upon all subsequent proceedings in the same case.”).5
[1399]*1399Not only was the district court required to accept this court’s finding that Black had stated a claim of retaliation, but the district court also was obligated to accept as true all facts alleged in Black’s complaint. All of Black’s factual allegations are treated as true because a default judgment was entered against the defendants. When a default judgment is entered, facts alleged in the complaint may not be contested. See Thomson v. Wooster, 114 U.S. 104, 5 S.Ct. 788, 29 L.Ed. 105 (1885); see also Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(d) (“Averments in a pleading to which a responsive pleading is required ... are admitted when not denied in the responsive pleading.”). Furthermore, “[a]s a general rule, a default judgment establishes, as a matter of law, that defendants are liable to plaintiff as to each cause of action alleged in the complaint.” United States v. Di Mucci, 879 F.2d 1488, 1497 (7th Cir.1989). The entry of a default order does not, however, preclude a party from challenging the sufficiency of the complaint. Alan Neuman Prods., Inc. v. Albright, 862 F.2d 1388, 1392 (9th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 858, 110 S.Ct. 168, 107 L.Ed.2d 124 (1989).
In light of this court’s previous decision in Black I, and considering that all facts alleged in Black’s complaint are deemed true, we find without hesitation that it was erroneous for the district court to dismiss Black’s claim of retaliation.
B. The Second Amended Complaint
Even in the absence of the law of the case doctrine we find it was erroneous for the district court to dismiss Black’s claim of retaliation. To state a cause of action for retaliatory treatment, a complaint need only “allege a chronology of events from which retaliation may be inferred.” Murphy v. Lane, 833 F.2d 106, 108 (7th Cir.1987) (per curiam) (quoting Benson v. Cady, 761 F.2d 335, 342 (7th Cir.1985)); see also Cain v. Lane, 857 F.2d 1139, 1143 n. 6 (7th Cir.1988).
Reviewing the actions of the various defendants, as is outlined in more detail in the addendum,6 it is evident that Black has alleged continuous acts of harassment and beatings since the time he filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Justice. Immediately after the filing of the administrative complaint, and for the three-year period following it, the defendants interfered with Black’s assigned tasks, withheld privileges, wrongfully confined him to his cell, and wrongfully issued false disciplinary tickets against Black. He was also confined for three days to a hot, flooded cell that had been closed as unfit for human habitation, where he suffered a heart attack.
The dissent suggests that Black’s complaint should be given a narrow and restricted construction. Under the Supreme Court’s recent holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, — U.S. -, —, 113 S.Ct. 1160, 1163, 122 L.Ed.2d 517 (1993), however, a heightened pleading rule does not apply to § 1983 claims. Rather, Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is applicable. [1400]*1400Rule 8 simply requires conformity “with the liberal system of ‘notice pleading.’ ” Id. The dissent is critical that Black’s complaint has categorized certain retaliatory allegations under the heading of “Racial Discrimination” and others under “Retaliation.”7 This overlooks the fact that both sections of the complaint contain a continuous chronological sequence of retaliation dating from the time of Black’s complaint to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance of the United States Department of Justice. As the Supreme Court observed in another context: “Certain wrongs affect more than a single right and, accordingly, can implicate more than one of the Constitution’s commands. Where such multiple violations are alleged, we are not in the habit of identifying as a preliminary matter the claim’s ‘dominant’ character. Rather, we examine each constitutional provision in turn.” Soldal v. Cook County, Ill., — U.S. -, -, 113 S.Ct. 538, 548, 121 L.Ed.2d 450 (1992).
In evaluating Black’s complaint, we read his complaint as a whole. This court stated in Bartholet v. Reishauer A.G. (Zurich), 953 F.2d 1073 (7th Cir.1992), that while
it is common to draft complaints with multiple counts, each of which specifies a single statute or legal rule, nothing in the Rules of Civil Procedure requires this. To the contrary, the rules discourage it.... A complaint under Rule 8 limns the claim; details of both fact and law come later, in other documents.... [A] court should ask whether relief is possible under any set of facts that could be established consistent with the allegations.
Id. at 1078 (citations omitted); see also Kaylor v. Fields, 661 F.2d 1177, 1180 (8th Cir.1981) (in reviewing a civil rights complaint to determine if it stated a claim for which relief could be granted, the court noted that the complaint was “sketchy” and “short on specific facts,” but proceeded to view the complaint as a whole).
Additionally, and contrary to the dissent’s view that a three-year time period existed between Black’s filing of a racial discrimination complaint and the occurrence of retaliatory acts, Black asserts in his reply brief that the
defendants wholly ignore that the Second Amended Complaint has alleged that, immediately after the fifing of Black’s administrative grievance, and during the following three-year period, defendants continuously retaliated against Black by interfering with Black’s assigned tasks, withholding privileges accorded to other prisoners, wrongfully confining Black to his cell while white inmates were allowed out of their cells, and wrongfully issuing false disciplinary tickets against Black, causing the loss of his good time credits.
Rule 8(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires this court to construe “[a]ll pleadings ... to do substantial justice.” Under notice pleading rules, it is for the parties to produce their evidence at trial. Here, due to the defendants’ default, there was no trial. The plaintiff did, however, attempt to set forth the facts supporting his claims in an evidentiary proceeding before the district court on damages. The defendants, of course, can no longer contest the facts supporting the damages. They have defaulted.
Weighing all of the facts in the pleadings together, and not simply viewing each incident in isolation, Black has shown that he was retaliated against by the various defendants. We find that Black should be awarded reasonable compensation for the physical and mental harm he suffered.
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C. Dismissal of Several Defendants
The district court dismissed several of the defendants as not being involved in the harassment nd beatings of Black. The district court found defendants Severs, Aldridge, Neal, Inman and Howard jointly and severally liable. The court dismissed, however, defendants Cowan, Gross, Littleton, Mc-Donough, Fleming, Lane and Greer for lack of personal involvement. Our reading of the complaint is to the contrary. Other than Greer,8 each defendant who was dismissed is specifically named in the complaint and was involved in the beatings or other forms of harassment inflicted upon Black.
For example, Lane, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, approved an unjustified disciplinary ticket issued by Aldridge and Inman; another unjustified disciplinary ticket issued by Inman; and other false disciplinary charges that Littleton, Co-wan and Gross initiated after they beat Black. When various defendants refused to let Black out of his cell to go to work and Black filed a grievance, Lane upheld a committee’s decision to refer the matter to the prison librarian and to take no other action.
As this court has held, an official meets the “personal involvement” requirement when “ ‘she acts or fails to act with a deliberate or reckless disregard of plaintiffs constitutional rights, or if the conduct causing the constitutional deprivation occurs at her direction or with her knowledge and consent.’ ” Smith v. Rowe, 761 F.2d 360, 369 (7th Cir.1985) (citation omitted). In Rowe, we held the Director of the Department of Corrections liable because the director “knew of the actions of his subordinates which resulted in a constitutional violation” and “failed to take any preventive action.” Id. At a minimum, Lane is presumed to have knowledge of Menard’s resolution agreement with the Department of Justice and thus of the unlawful practices at Menard. He failed, however, to take any preventive action and thus Black’s complaint sufficiently alleges Lane’s personal involvement.
The other defendants also were personally involved in Black’s constitutional deprivations. Cowan on two occasions ordered Black to move from his single cell to a double cell. Black refused, explaining that the prison psychologist had decided that Black should be in a single cell because of his heart attack, his age, and numerous threats on his life by inmate gang members. One time, when Black refused to move, Cowan repeatedly beat him. Another time Cowan stood by as Littleton and others beat Black. Cowan also caused false disciplinary charges to be brought against Black. Gross repeatedly beat Black on one occasion when Black refused to move from his single cell to a double cell, and also caused false disciplinary charges to be brought against Black. Littleton repeatedly beat Black on two occasions when Black refused to move from his single cell to a double cell, and also caused false disciplinary charges to be brought against Black. McDonough reprimanded a white clerk who was about to be transferred for telling Black about the job vacancy. Mc-Donough threatened to block that inmate’s transfer so that the position would not be available to Black. McDonough subsequently ordered Black to return to his porter assignment even though he had been trained for the clerk position. Fleming repeatedly attempted to force Black into a double cell, causing Black to fear for his health and safety.
Black’s complaint alleged personal involvement of all of the defendants, with the exception of Greer. Thus, it was improper for the district court to dismiss the other defendants.
D. Procedural Due Process
The district court dismissed the procedural due process aspect of Black’s complaint, reasoning that Black had not al[1402]*1402leged that the requirements of Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974),9 were not met and thus that Black failed to state a claim for a due process violation. Due process requires not only that Wolff be satisfied, but also that the disciplinary decision be supported by “some evidence.” See Cain v. Lane, 857 F.2d 1139, 1145 (7th Cir.1988); Hanrahan v. Lane, 747 F.2d 1137, 1140 (7th Cir.1984) (per curiam); see also Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Inst. v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445, 454, 105 S.Ct. 2768, 2773, 86 L.Ed.2d 356 (1985) (“[Revocation of good time does not comport with ‘the minimum requirements of procedural due process’ unless the findings of the prison disciplinary board are supported by some evidence in the record.” (citation omitted)).
Again, we note that because of the default judgment entered against the defendants, the facts alleged in Black’s complaint are deemed true. Similarly, in considering whether to dismiss portions of Black’s complaint, the district court was required to accept Black’s factual allegations as true. See Gillman v. Burlington N.R. Co., 878 F.2d 1020, 1022 (7th Cir.1989).
Black’s complaint states a claim for violation of his procedural due process rights by alleging that the defendants repeatedly and systematically filed and approved false and unjustified disciplinary charges, which resulted in segregation and the loss of good time. We understand “false” and “unjustified” to mean that the tickets and resulting segregation and loss of good time were not supported by any evidence. Thus, Black stated a claim for violation of his procedural due process rights because the disciplinary decisions were not supported by some evidence.10
E. Substantive Due Process
The district court disregarded Black’s claim that his substantive due process rights were violated. An allegation of deprivation of due process rights states a claim under both procedural and substantive due process. See Kauth v. Hartford Ins. Co., 852 F.2d 951, 954 n. 4 (7th Cir.1988); Brown v. Texas A & M Univ., 804 F.2d 327, 336 (5th Cir.1986). Issuing false and unjustified disciplinary charges can amount to a violation of substantive due process if the charges were in retaliation for the exercise of a constitutional right.11 See Cain, 857 F.2d at 1145 [1403]*1403(‘“The observance of procedural formalities cannot render valid an infringement upon inalienable constitutional rights.’” (quoting Shango v. Jurich, 681 F.2d 1091, 1098 n. 13 (7th Cir.1982))); see also Sprouse v. Babcock, 870 F.2d 450, 452 (8th Cir.1989) (noting that the filing of a disciplinary charge against a prisoner, “although otherwise not actionable under section 1983, is actionable under section 1983 if done in retaliation for [the prisoner’s] having filed a grievance pursuant to established procedures”).
In Cale v. Johnson, 861 F.2d 943 (6th Cir.1988), a case with similar facts, a prisoner alleged that as a result of complaining about the poor quality of the food, a prison guard planted drugs on him and filed false disciplinary charges against him. Id. at 944-45. The Sixth Circuit, in reversing the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, found that it would be a violation of the prisoner’s substantive due process 'rights if the prison official had abused his authority by retaliating against the prisoner for exercising his First Amendment rights. Id. at 948. The court determined that the alleged conduct of the prison guard amounted to an egregious abuse of authority such as to deprive the prisoner of his substantive due process rights, and further noted the enhanced risk that the prisoner “was in danger of further loss of liberty through disciplinary detention and through the loss of good-time credit as the result of the charges filed against him.” Id. at 949-50.
As addressed previously, the facts alleged in Black’s complaint create an inference that Black was retaliated against for the exercise of his constitutional rights. Black specifically alleged that disciplinary tickets were issued in retaliation for his successful pursuit of an administrative complaint. This conduct by prison officials is an egregious abuse of power such as to violate Black’s substantive due process rights. Hence, Black stated a claim for violation of his substantive due process rights and the district court improperly dismissed this claim.
Finally, we note' that when faced with a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Procedure, courts must be mindful not to dismiss a complaint “unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.” Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 45-46, 78 S.Ct. 99, 102, 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957). With this standard in mind, we deem it obvious that the district court erred in dismissing the bulk of Black’s complaint. As an addendum to this opinion, we have listed in chronological order the treatment that Black alleged he received at the hands of prison officials.
III.
The defendants have chosen to default in this case. Although they may contest the amount of damages, the defendants lack standing to deny liability for all factual allegations now deemed admitted. Muriel Black is a prison inmate and has been punished by segregation from society. This does not mean that he may be subjected by the state to racial discrimination, harassment, beatings, and other forms of punishment. Confinement to prison is the extent of his punishment for the crime he has committed. He still must be treated humanely. According to the state’s own admission, he was not.
This case is remanded to the district court. We recommend that a district judge hold the hearing on the award of damages under the default judgment. The hearing should be held as expeditiously as possible.
Judgment vacated and remanded.
ADDENDUM
What follows is a chronological listing of the facts alleged in the plaintiffs complaint, which are deemed true as a result of the default judgment entered against the defendants.
January-February 1979: Plaintiff was assigned to work as a porter in the Menard prison hospital. All inmate porters and ward attendants were black and all inmate clerks were white. Plaintiff soon learned of an upcoming job opening for an X-ray and laboratory inmate clerk and told the hospital administrator, Sandra McDonough, that he had thirty years of clerical experience. The white inmate who held the position, Kimpel, was expecting a transfer which was approved [1404]*1404in February of 1979. Plaintiff overheard Mc-Donough reprimand the white inmate for telling plaintiff about the vacancy and threatened to block the transfer. McDonough told plaintiff he could have the job if it became vacant. Plaintiff was trained for the clerk position but then was told that McDonough had ordered him off the clerk’s job and back on the porter assignment.
Late March 1979: Kimpel’s transfer was blocked and one of McDonough’s employee’s wrote a disciplinary report claiming the plaintiff threatened him.
April 1979: Plaintiff was found guilty of the alleged disciplinary infraction, lost his job, and was transferred to a different cell house.
June L 1979: Plaintiff filed an administrative complaint of employment discrimination with the Office of Civil Rights Compliance of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”).
August 1979 — June 1980: Plaintiff was transferred from protective custody unit to segregation unit for no apparent reason, where he had no job opportunities.
February 1980: DOJ issued its investigative findings sustaining plaintiffs charge of job discrimination.
April 1980: Menard Correctional Center signed a resolution agreement promising to open up inmate jobs to all qualified applicants without regard to race.
Late 1980: Plaintiff was assigned to work as a laundry person’s helper and then as head laundry person. As a helper, he assisted the head laundry person, who was white. The head laundry person was allowed out of his cell for thirteen hours a day, seven days a week, but plaintiff was allowed out of his cell only seven hours a day and only on weekdays. After the head laundry person resigned and plaintiff replaced him, a white inmate became plaintiffs helper. Sergeant Phoenix then reversed the privileges associated with each job so that plaintiff, as head laundry person, was allowed out of his cell to work for seven hours a day and only on weekdays. Plaintiffs white helper was allowed out for thirteen hours a day, seven days a week. This caused plaintiff to quit the head laundry person job. Plaintiff subsequently inquired about clerk’s positions in the protective custody unit and in the inmate kitchen, but learned that those positions were held only by white inmates.
July 1982: Aldridge put plaintiff in a hot, flooded cell that had been closed by the prison medical staff as being unfit for human habitation. After being confined for three days, plaintiff suffered a heart attack.
October 1982: Plaintiff worked as a law clerk for the protective custody unit from October 1982 to December 1983. On numerous occasions, plaintiff was prevented from leaving his cell to do his work. Defendants Severs, Aldridge, and Neal were personally involved in the restrictions. Severs often let white clerks leave their cells to work while restricting plaintiff, and two correctional counselors had to remind Severs that plaintiff should be allowed out of his cell to work. Aldridge allowed white inmates with no job classification out of their cells but would not let plaintiff out to work. Plaintiff approached Neal on various occasions about the cell restrictions. Neal offered to intervene but did not correct the problem and the practice continued. Plaintiff’s supervisor, Darla Stof-fel, informed Neal of plaintiffs work hours and responsibilities and asked that plaintiff be allowed to work. Neal did not respond.
August 1988: Specific instance where plaintiff was not allowed out of his cell to work.
November U, 1983: Plaintiff filed a grievance concerning confinement during work hours. The committee decided to refer the matter to the prison librarian, and this decision was upheld by Lane.
December 1983: Plaintiff quit his job as law clerk out of frustration over trying to complete his job assignments while under confinement. He was reassigned as a counsel- or’s clerk. Restrictions on plaintiffs out of cell time, as well as verbal harassment, continued. Aldridge, Inman and Howard participated in restrictions, and subjected plaintiff to verbal harassment when he tried to do his job.
March 1981: On March 1, Howard refused to let plaintiff out of his cell to do his work [1405]*1405while allowing white inmates out of their cells. On March 2, Officer Lee did the same. On March 4, Aldridge ordered plaintiff to return to his cell after an officer had let plaintiff out to work. White inmates were allowed to remain out of their cells.
May 19, 198k: Howard locked plaintiff in his cell after plaintiff had been out for only three hours of work. Howard let white inmates stay out of their cells. Inman often refused to let plaintiff out of his cell, and when seeing plaintiff out of his cell would continually harass him.
June, 29, 198k• Unjustified disciplinary ticket was written by Aldridge and Inman and approved by Lane, charging the plaintiff with taking “Kites” out. of the protective custody mailbox for the counselor. This was part of his duties as counselor’s clerk. The disciplinary ticket resulted in plaintiffs assignment to segregation, demotion for thirty days, and removal from his counselor’s clerk job on July 6, 1984.
July 31, 198k: Chairperson of the job classification committee for the protective custody unit told plaintiff that he would be reinstated as a counselor’s clerk when he returned to protective custody and that no other inmate would be assigned to that position. When plaintiff returned to the position, his assignments had been given to white inmates and there was little work left for plaintiff to do.
September and October 198k: Plaintiff complained to the job classification chairperson that he was not receiving paperwork to do his job and that the white clerk was doing the work previously done by plaintiff.
October 13, 198k: Inman ordered Officer Miller to lock plaintiff in his cell during his scheduled work shift.
October Ik, 198k: On two occasions, Sergeant Biggs refused to allow plaintiff out of his cell to work, but let approximately twenty other inmates out of their cells.
November 198k: Counselor Frailey took over the position of chairperson of the protective custody classification committee. Frailey told plaintiff that because of plaintiff’s problems with, the guards, plaintiff could not keep his job as a counselor’s clerk. That day, plaintiff was fired from his position as a counselor’s clerk.
March 1985: As a result of plaintiff’s heart attack, his age and numerous threats on plaintiff’s life by inmate gang members, prison psychologist Dr. Gupta prescribed that plaintiff be housed in a single cell for his medical and physical safety. Lane, Neal, Fleming, Gross, Cowan and Littleton were all aware of plaintiffs need to be placed in a single cell but repeatedly attempted to force him into a double cell.
March 7, 1985: Plaintiff was approached in his single cell by Cowan and Littleton and ordered to move to a double cell with an unknown inmate. Plaintiff refused, explaining that he feared for his health and safety. The officers entered his cell and repeatedly beat plaintiff, injuring him severely.
June 27, 1986: Plaintiff was again approached in his cell by Littleton and Cowan, as well as three unknown correctional officers, and ordered to move to a double cell. Plaintiff again refused and explained why Dr. Gupta had prescribed a single cell. Littleton and two of the correctional officers entered plaintiff’s cell and repeatedly beat him, injuring him severely, while Cowan and the third correctional officer stood by.
March 7,1987: While in his cell, plaintiff was approached by Gross, an unknown lieutenant, and two unknown correctional officers, and ordered to move to a double cell. When plaintiff refused to move, Gross and the lieutenant entered plaintiffs cell and repeatedly beat him, injuring him severely., Following the beatings that occurred on three occasions when plaintiff refused to move, Littleton, Co-wan and Gross caused false disciplinary charges to be brought against plaintiff. Lane approved the false charges causing plaintiff to be wrongfully placed in segregated confinement and resulting in the illegal confiscation of plaintiffs good time and increasing the length of his sentence.