Is a prison official liable for failing to act with deliberate indifference in the case of an inmate who was injured in a fall from a balcony of a high-security prison?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Nguyen v. Cal. Prison Health Serv., No. 2:13-cv-963-EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2014):
To act with deliberate indifference, a prison official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994). Thus, a defendant is liable if
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