The Court did not find it necessary to define what the "ordinary incidents" of prison life were, vis-à-vis confinement in Supermax conditions, for "assignment to OSP imposes an atypical and significant hardship under any plausible baseline."
The Court did not consider it necessary to outline what constitutes the "normal challenges" of prison life in relation to confinement in Supermax facilities, as placing an inmate in OSP imposes a significant and unusual hardship, regardless of any possible standard.