What is the test for violating the Eighth Amendment in the context of human rights violations?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Sullivan v. Macomber, No. 2:16-cv-0526 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2019):

"The Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons, but neither does it permit inhumane ones." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 832 (1994) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). "[A] prison official violates the Eighth Amendment only when two requirements are met. First, the deprivation alleged must be, objectively, sufficiently serious; a prison official's act or omission must result in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities." Id. at 834 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). Second, the prison

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