Is a prison official's failure to protect a pretrial detainee from violence at the hands of other inmates actionable?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Pile v. Becker, No. 2:20-cv-0728 CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
As plaintiff has been informed, a pretrial detainee's right to be free from violence at the hands of other inmates arises from the Fourteenth Amendment. Castro v. Cty. of Los Angeles, 833 F.3d 1060, 1067-1068 (9th Cir. 2016). A prison official's failure to protect a pretrial detainee is actionable if four conditions are met:
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Id. at 1071. As to the third element, the defendant's conduct must be objectively unreasonable. Id.
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