Is a prison officer deliberately indifferent to inmate medical needs?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wallace v. Do, Case No.: 3:15-cv-1141-WQH-AGS (S.D. Cal. 2016):
medical needs.'" Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104. A prison official is deliberately indifferent to those needs if he is alleged to "know[] of and disregard[] an excessive risk to inmate health." Peralta, 744 F.3d at 1082 (quoting Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994)).
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