UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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No. 96-30098 Summary Calendar _____________________

EVARISTUS MACKEY,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

versus

MIKE GILLIAM, Warden, Et Al.,

Defendants,

MIKE GILLIAM, Warden,

Defendant-Appellee.

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (93-CV-1535) _________________________________________________________________ January 10, 1997 Before SMITH, DUHÉ, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Evaristus Mackey, Louisiana inmate # 317335, appeals from a

judgment for the defendants in his

civil rights

action, in which he claimed that the defendants violated his due

process rights by failing to give him breaks from isolated

confinement and that the prison’s policy of removing bedding from

* Pursuant to Local Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in Local Rule 47.5.4. his cell during nonsleeping hours violated the Eighth Amendment’s

prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. We AFFIRM the

judgment for essentially the reasons stated by the district court.

Mackey v. Gilliam, No. 93-CV-1535 (W.D. La. Nov. 9, 1994, and Jan.

18, 1996) (unpublished).

AFFIRMED

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