Hutto v. Finney

Nonetheless, the majority agreed with Justice Stevens's opinion and the Court decided to impose the 30-day maximum limit on solitary confinement and to charge the Arkansas Department of Correction attorney's fees in an effort to rid the system of its human rights violations once and for all. Stevens argued that he found "no error in the court's conclusion that, taken as a whole, conditions in the isolation cells continued to violate the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment" and that "the 30-day limit [would] help to correct these conditions." Consequently, Hutto v. Finney, like Holt v. Sarver and other related cases, stands as a landmark case concerning prisoner rights trials and legislation. This case is one of the successful challenges to prison conditions where the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision and ordered improved living conditions for the entire state correctional system.