Can a prison official be held liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Peterson, CASE NO. 1:09-cv-02020-OWW-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2010):
"[A] prison official may be held liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement only if he knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 847 (1994). "A prison official may be held liable for
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