Under what circumstances will a prison officer be found guilty of a violation of the Eighth Amendment for failing to protect a prisoner from violence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Crosby v. Valencia, No. 2:18-cv-1848 JAM CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
2. Under the Eighth Amendment, "prison officials have a duty to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 (1994) (internal quotation marks, ellipsis, and citation omitted). A violation occurs if an injury results from a prison official's deliberate indifference to "a sufficiently substantial risk of serious damage to [the prisoner's] future health." Id. at 834 (internal quotation omitted).
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