Cca

MEMORANDUM

Michael Hayes appeals from the judgment issued by the district court in favor of Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”) and a number of its employees. The judgment issued after a jury verdict in a trial on the claims against Doser and Acosta wherein the jury answered “NO” to the question: “While incarcerated at the Idaho Correctional Center on K-Pod, did [Hayes] face a substantial risk of serious harm?” Prior to that, the district court had granted summary judgment against him on his claims against CCA, the Warden, and the Committee. We affirm.

Hayes brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in which he claimed that his rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution had been violated during his incarceration. In order to prevail, he had to prove that CCA and the employees had violated his constitutional rights because they were deliberately indifferent when they allowed him to be subjected “to a substantial risk of serious harm” from other inmates.

Hayes asserts that the verdict must be overturned because the district court excluded certain “concern forms” that other prisoners had sent to other prison workers some time after the incident in question…