What is the test for a prisoner who alleges that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in prison?

As for the Eighth Amendment, the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment prohibits prison officials from using excessive physical force against prisoners, and requires them to "provide humane conditions of confinement," which includes access to food, clothing, shelter, and medical care along with prisoner safety. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 (1994). Any prisoner, therefore, who asserts that a prison official violated his Eighth Amendment rights must demonstrate (1) that the deprivation suffered is objectively, sufficiently serious and (2) that the official has a sufficiently culpable state of mind to implicate the Eighth Amendment's protection against the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain." Id. at 834. To satisfy the first

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