What is the test for finding a prison official liable for physical abuse of an inmate?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from McCoy v. Ramirez, CASE NO. 1:13-cv-01808-MJS (E.D. Cal. 2015):
To establish a violation of a prison official's duty to take reasonable steps to protect inmates from physical abuse, the prisoner must establish that prison officials were "deliberately indifferent" to serious threats to the inmate's safety. Farmer, 511 U.S. at 834. "Mere negligence is not sufficient to establish liability." Frost v. Agnos, 152 F.3d 1124, 1128 (9th Cir. 1998). Rather, a plaintiff must set forth facts to show that a
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