                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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                              No. 96-30098
                            Summary Calendar
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                           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)
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                          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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 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that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent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18, 1996) (unpublished).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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