What is the test for deliberate indifference by prison staff to an inmate's mental health care needs?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. United States, CASE No. 1:11-cv-01562-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
This principle extends to an inmate's mental-health-care needs. Smith v. Jenkins, 919 F.2d 90, 92-93 (8th Cir. 1990). Deliberate indifference by prison personnel to an inmate's serious mental-health-care-needs violates the inmate's Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Id.
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