Is a prison officer deliberately indifferent to the risk of serious harm to a prisoner?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wade v. Rubalcaba, No. 2: 18-cv-2844 KJM KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
A prison official is deliberately indifferent if he or she knows that a prisoner faces a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable steps to abate it. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994). The prison official must not only "be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists," but also "must also draw the inference." Id.
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