How have courts treated deliberate indifference and recklessness in assessing a claim of intentional indifference?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Newton v. City of N.Y., 779 F.3d 140 (2nd Cir. 2015):

17 [T]he Courts of Appeals have routinely equated deliberate indifference with recklessness. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 836, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994).

17 [T]he Courts of Appeals have routinely equated deliberate indifference with recklessness. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 836, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994).

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