Can verbal harassment be a violation of the Eighth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Baker v. Battad, Case No.: 19CV1438-AJB (BLM) (S.D. Cal. 2020):
While verbal harassment alone typically is insufficient to state an Eighth Amendment violation, verbal harassment may violate the Constitution when it is "unusually gross even for a prison setting and [is] calculated to and [does] cause [plaintiff] psychological damage." Cox v.
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