The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Vasquez, 28 F.3d 104 (9th Cir. 1994):
A prison policy violates the Eighth Amendment if it involves the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain." Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 356 (1981); McQueary v. Blodgett, 924 F.2d 829 (9th Cir.1991). Deprivation of constitutional rights may amount to such unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 94, 107 S.Ct. 2254 (1987) (finding a regulation prohibiting inmate marriage unconstitutional).
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