What is the test for a prison official's deliberate indifference to inmate safety?

The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects prisoners against a prison official's "deliberate indifference" to "a substantial risk of serious harm." Farmer, 511 U.S. at 828 (1994). "Deliberate indifference" has both an objective and subjective component: there must be an objective risk to inmate safety, and the official in question must also "draw the inference" that the risk exists and disregard it. Id. at 837; see also Clement v. Gomez, 298 F.3d 898, 904 (9th Cir. 2002) (describing subjective and objective components). For a risk to

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