What is the test for alleging a violation of the Eighth Amendment by a prison officer for failing to protect an inmate from violence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Jones v. Shelton, Case No. 1:19-cv-01068-EPG (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2020):
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). To establish a violation of this duty, the prisoner must establish that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to a serious threat to the inmate's safety. Id. at 834.
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