The following excerpt is from Haygood v. Younger, 718 F.2d 1472 (9th Cir. 1983):
(3) Detention beyond the termination of the sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when it results from "deliberate indifference" to the prisoner's interest in liberty. See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. at 104, 104-06, 97 S.Ct. at 291-92.
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