What is the test for an Eighth Amendment claim based on prison conditions?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Branham v. Meachum, 77 F.3d 626 (2nd Cir. 1996):
In the context of an Eighth Amendment claim based on prison conditions, a prisoner must prove that prison officials acted with "deliberate indifference." Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U.S. 294, 297, 111 S.Ct. 2321, 2323, 115 L.Ed.2d 271 (1991) (quotations omitted). Under this standard, the deprivation alleged by the prisoner must be in objective terms "sufficiently serious" such that the deprivation "den[ied] the minimal
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